Renshaw, G., 1904. Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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Morphology - Horn |
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African Rhino Species |
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The white rhinoceros, like its congener, carries two horns, but an examination of a good series of museum specimens will speedily demonstrate that the front one is always flattened anteriorly in the white species, and rounded anteriorly in the black. Moreover, R. simus has always the anterior horn extremely bristly at the base, and exhibiting a whitish colour on section.
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