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| Title: |
Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens |
| Author(s): |
Newman, E. |
| Year published: |
1874 |
| Journal: |
Zoologist |
| Volume: |
(2) 9 |
| Pages: |
3949-3952 |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology - Horn
Javan Rhino
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| London Zoo. The horn is little more than an apology, short and amorphous, as though the poor beast had been long in durance vile, and had worn away this instrument in its efforts to escape. |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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| London Zoo. The tip of the upper lip is pointed and finger-like. |
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Captivity - Zoo Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| It is now supposed that Asia or its islands possess in addition two two-horned species, which have been called R. malayanus and R. lasiotis; the latter is comparatively new, and was exhibited for the first time in the Gardens last year. These two, concerning which much has been written, agree in... |
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Taxonomy
Javan Rhino
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| 'I must frankly confess that I have only quite recently discriminated the two one-horned species, fancying, as a matter of course, that the numerous skulls of single-horned rhinoceroses in the Society's Museum from the Bengal Sundarbans, &c., especially the broad-faced type, were necessarily of t... |
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Javan Rhino
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| The distinctions between these one-horned species are, in the first place, that Unicornis is much the larger, and secondly, that they inhabit different regions. Mr. Blyth was, beyond question, of all naturalists living at the time he wrote to me, [letter dated calcutta, March 1, 1862] the best qu... |
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Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens
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