Prater, S.H., 1980. The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324
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The various species of rhinoceros, all now confined to the Old World, differ remarkably from one another in structure. As a result of migrations during past epochs into different habitats and climates, and into new feeding grounds to which they became appear to have become adapted, the various species appear to have become distinct at a very early period of their history.
A comparison of the remains of numerous extinct forms with those now living indicates seven main lines of descent and evolution from which lesser branches have diverged. Though these
animals are externally similar, they are thus really very far apart both in history and anatomy: even the two living African rhinoceroses probably separated from each other and became distinct species a million years ago.
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