 Reference Base  A note on the nuchal hump of the square-lipped rhinoceros... |
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Alexander, A.; Player, I.C., 1965. A note on the nuchal hump of the square-lipped rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum simum (Burchell). Lammergeyer 3 (2): 5-9, pls. 1-2, fig. 1
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In both specimens this tissue differed in no significant feature from that described by Cave and Allbrook and little further comment need be added here. The maximal thickness of the skin ?callous' (49 mm. in the midline of the adult) was slightly more than three times the thickness of the skin just lateral to the hump, so that a very distinct thickening of the dermis certainly is present over the neck region in these animals, just as was described for C. simum cottoni.
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