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Prater, S.H., 1934. The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36
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Indian Rhino |
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The skin of this massive creature is divided into great shields by heavy folds before and behind the shoulder and in front of the thighs. In this Rhinoceros the folding of the skin in front of the shoulders is not continued right across the back. The skin on the flanks, shoulders and bind quarters, is covered with a mass of rounded. tubercles. With his grotesque shape, long boat-shaped head, his folds of armour, his scaly hide he looks like a monster of some bye-gone age.
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