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Morphology |
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White Rhino |
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Ceratotherium simum cottoni. The skin is well adapted for temperature regulation, having an epidermis about 1 mm thick, with a well-developed subjacent vascular bed. The dermis, about 2 cm or more thick, is dense, collagenous and relatively avascular, pierced at intervals by vessels to the epidermis. Beneath the epidermis lie large and numerous sweat glands with well-developed myo-epithelial cells. Under the thermal conditions prevailing no signs of sweating were observe with the quinizarin-sodium carbonate-strach method. After prolonged exertion sweat is however said to appear.
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Temperature regulation in the white rhinoceros
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