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Title: Palpebral vibrissae in the Sumatran rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatrensis)
Author(s): Cave, A.J.E.; Wingstrand, K.G.
Year published: 1972
Journal: Journal of Zoology, London
Volume: 167 (3)
Pages: 351
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The erroneous notion that palpebral vibrissae (eyelashes) are wanting from the lower eyelid of the Rhinocerotidae is attributable to Pocock (1914), whose observations were apparently made on museum skins and mounted specimens only. Examination of living and of freshly dead specimens shows such v...
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