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| Title: |
Neues aus der Schausammlung: das Indische Nashorn |
| Author(s): |
Marx, E.; Koch, A. |
| Year published: |
1910 |
| Journal: |
Bericht des Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft |
| Volume: |
41 (3) |
| Pages: |
161-171, figs. 1-7 |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Indian Rhino
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| These animals are usually on their own, only together with another during oestrous. |
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Morphology
Indian Rhino
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| The colour of the animals looks darker in the wild as it is in reality. The Indian rhino is light grey [hellgrau], the african yellowish brown. But the mud makes it look darker. |
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Morphology
Indian Rhino
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| The hide of the Indian rhino looks like an armour, divided in shileds by enormous folds. As the skin is relatively thin in these folds, the hide can move in these areas. The hide of each shield is gain modelled in an extremely detailed way by netshaped drawings and small polygonal fields which ... |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Indian Rhino
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| They usually sleep by day, and they use the hours of the night and early morning to look for food after taking a mudbath. |
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Ecology - Population
Indian Rhino
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| Female in Berlin and Frankfurt, 19 Sep 1872 - 24 Aug 1909. Male in Berlin, 19 Sep 1872 - 7 Sep 1909. Total longevity maximum 40 years. |
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Behaviour - Daily Routine
Indian Rhino
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| Mud bath is taken to protect it from bloodsuckers. |
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Morphology - Size
Indian Rhino
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| Height at shoulder 1,33 m, female in Berlin Zoo, 1872 . At death in 1909 (Frankfurt Zoo) this same animal was 1,68 m high. |
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Morphology - Size
Indian Rhino
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| Length of body 2,80 m - female in Berlin Zoo ca. 1872. At death in 1909 (Frankfurt Zoo) the animal was 3,25 m long. |
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Indian Rhino
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| Rhinoceros unicornis seen for first time in 61 BC in the shows of Pompejus |
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Diseases
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| Female in Frankfurt Zoo in winter 1907/1908 showed bleeding from reproductve organs and the situation deteriorated. Animal was euthanized in 1909.
Post mortem revealed that the uterus had a large abscess, and the whole organ had a weight of one Zentner. There was also a Fibromyom of the Uterus... |
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Neues aus der Schausammlung: das Indische Nashorn
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