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Reference Base  The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora a... |
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The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata |
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Sclater, W.L. |
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1900 |
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London, R.H. Porter |
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pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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Morphology - Skull
White Rhino
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| The skull (see fig. 75, p. 297), is altogether larger than in the other species, and the portion behind the orbit is drawn out, so that the angle formed at the occipital crest between the parietal and occipital regions is a very acute one; the front portion, too, of the mandible is much more depr... |
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Morphology
Black Rhino
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| nostrils somewhat oval, not elongated |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Ear to nose-tip 35.0 inch |
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Taxonomy
Black Rhino
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| Pomel, Cat.Vert. Foss. Bassin superieur de la Loire, p. 78 (1853), Type: R. elatus. |
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Morphology - Size
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| Ear from notch - 9.0 inch |
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Reproduction
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| only one young one is produced at a birth, the mother, too, exhibits great affection towards her offspring. |
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| Rhinoceros simus, Burchell, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, p. 96 (1817); A.Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. ii, p. 179 (1834) ; id. Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm. pl. xix (1839); Drummond, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p.109; Buckley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 280; Selous, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 725 [... |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
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| when it moves, the head is carried very low so that the horn is almost parallel to the ground, and should a mother have a young calf it always precedes her, being guided by the tip of her horn gently pressing on its rump |
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| when it moves, the head is carried very low so that the horn is almost parallel to the ground, and should a mother have a young calf it always precedes her, being guided by the tip of her horn gently pressing on its rump |
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| A curious variety considered by Gray to be a distinct species, and named by him Rhinouros oswellii, is distinguished by possessing a straight anterior horn projecting forward at an acute angle, but this is now acknowledged to be merely an accidental variation. |
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