Buckland, C.T., 1889. Birth of a rhinoceros at Calcutta. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 1889 March 2: 308
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Captive - Asia |
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Captivity - Zoo Records |
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Sumatran Rhino |
I enclose an extract from the 'Calcutta Englishman' newspaper notifying the birth of a rhinoceros at the Calcutta Zoological Gardens. 'Rhinoceros. - At the Zoological Garden, Alipore, on the 30th January, Rhinoceros Lasiotis, the wife of Rhinoceros Sumatrensis, of Caboul, of a son.'
I am told that this is the first instance known of a rhinoceros being born in captivity. It's undoubtedly the first time that there has been a cross between the two species Lasiotis and Sumatrensis. I regret to learn that the animal has been sent to Afghanistan to the Ameer Abdul Rahman, in exchange for some animals that the Ameer sent to the Calcutta Zoological Garden, but it is to be hoped that he may now be sent back to Calcutta.
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