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Pocock, R.I., 1912. The Zoological Society (The death of two rhinoceroses; measurements of Indian rhinoceroses; some characters of rhinoceroses; the King's collection of Indian animals). Field 119 (3082), 20 January 1912: 143, figs. 1-5
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Captive - Europe |
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Indian Rhino |
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Within the last two months the Society [in London] has lost two of its finest show animals, namely, a nearly (perhaps quite) adult female East African rhinoceros purchased in 1906, and an old male Indian rhinoceros presented by the late Maharajah of Cooch Behar in 1886. In neither case was the exact age known, but the former was probably about seven years old, while the latter, I infer from the information as to his size on arrival given to me by the keeper, to have been about 31 or 32. The Indian rhinoceros died of old age, and in this connection it is interesting to recall that the last example of this species that died in the Gardens from that cause was known to have been well over fourty years. Hence in rhinoceroses, as in man, senile changes may prove fatal at very varying periods of the individuals life.
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