Flower, W.H., 1889. Exhibition of the face of a male African rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1889 November 19: 448-449, fig. 1
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania |
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Morphology - Size |
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Black Rhino |
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Animal with 3rd horn, Tanzania. The anterior horn is 13 ? inches long, measured along its curved anterior surface, or 12 inches measured in a straight line from the side of the base to the apex, and is 20 inches in circumference at the base. The apex is considerably worn and polished. The base of the second horn is, as usual, in contact with the first, and it is 2 inches shorter, measuring 10 inches along the side from base to apex. It is more upright and compressed than the anterior horn. There is an interval of 4 inches between the hinder edge of the base of this and the front of the third horn. This supplementary horn is 5 ? inches in height and 17 ? in circumference at the base, which has an irregular, unsymmetrical, somewhat triangular form.
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Exhibition of the face of a male African rhinoceros
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