Hodgson, B.H., 1825. Remarks on the procreation of the rhinoceros. Quarterly Oriental Magazine: review and register 3 (5): 155-156
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The gestation of the rhinoceros was supposed by Buffon not to exceed 9 months and its corresponding life not to pass that of man, and this remark has been repeated by Desmarest. Hodgson observed the habits of a male and female rhinoceros kept in the Menagerie of the Raja of Nipal. He states that about 18 months prior to May 1824 a male and female voluntarily associated and that the result after an interval from 17 to 18 months was a fine male cub. Hodgson observes that the correctness of this period was doubted by the late Duvaucel, on the grounds of its being opposed to the general symmetry of those laws, which regulate the brute creation; and who in reference to this point objected the asserted gestation of the elephant at 11 months.
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