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Reference Base  Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens |
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| Title: |
Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens |
| Author(s): |
Newman, E. |
| Year published: |
1872 |
| Journal: |
Zoologist |
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(2) 7 |
| Pages: |
3057-3060 |
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All Rhino Species
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| A very interesting question has arisen, whether this last, a huge and powerful animal, is not the Unicorn of Scripture, Monoceros of the Greeks, and the Unicornis of the Latins: the suggestion is very reasonable, and well is worthy of investigation. Stupendous strength is the constant attribute ... |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail : this coarse hair occurs also on the upper anterior portion of the fore legs, and more sparingly on the belly. There is a fringe... |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| it differs from R. unicornis in having two horns, one of which, the smallest, seems exactly intermediate between the eyes, and the other, the larger one, occupies the same site on the nose as the single horn of Unicornis. |
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| London Zoo. The skin is without those enormous folds which are so imposing in R. unicornis: it has only one fold, and that is immediately behind the shoulder and extends round the barrel of the animal ; there are half-folds or large wrinkles between the ears, on the under side of the neck, and a... |
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| London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail. |
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Captive - Europe
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Sumatran Rhino
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| London Zoo. The skin is without those enormous folds which are so imposing in R. unicornis: it has only one fold, and that is immediately behind the shoulder and extends round the barrel of the animal ; there are half-folds or large wrinkles between the ears, on the under side of the neck, and a... |
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Captive - Europe
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Sumatran Rhino
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| London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail. |
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Captive - Europe
Morphology
Sumatran Rhino
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| London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail : this coarse hair occurs also on the upper anterior portion of the fore legs, and more sparingly on the belly. There is a fringe... |
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| it differs from R. unicornis in having two horns, one of which, the smallest, seems exactly intermediate between the eyes, and the other, the larger one, occupies the same site on the nose as the single horn of Unicornis. |
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Indian Rhino
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| The Sumatran rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatranus) is much less than the Indian species, Rhinoceros unicornis, two magnifcent specimens of which are already in our collection, both unfortunately mutilated by the loss of their horn: the first loss, that of the male, was an instance of self-mutilation... |
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