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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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Morphology - Size |
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Old male in London Zoo at death. It was impossible to weigh him entire, but all that could be collected of his cut-up remains, including the food contents of his intestines, scaled 3612 lbs avoirdupois - that is to say, nearly 1400 lb less than one that died in the gardens in 1854, whose weight computed in the same way, was recorded by Owen as about 5000 lbs. It must be remembered, however, that the animal we have just lost had eaten very little during the weeks preceding his death, and was considerably wasted at the time. Nevertheless, the difference is surprising and makes one suspect some error in the computation published by Owen. It is amusing, however, to compare the weights of these two animals with Rowland Ward's record of 1010 lb. barely the weight of a carriage horse, for a living animal. Since there is no comment on the size of the specimen in question, the compiler spposedly presumed the weight to be that of an adult animal. Obvously it must have been quite young.
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