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Reference Base  The Zoological Society (The death of two rhinoceroses; me... |
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The Zoological Society (The death of two rhinoceroses; measurements of Indian rhinoceroses; some characters of rhinoceroses; the King's collection of Indian animals) |
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Pocock, R.I. |
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1912 |
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Field |
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119 (3082), 20 January 1912 |
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143, figs. 1-5 |
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Morphology - Horn
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| There is one more point. I have never seen it recorded, although it may be known to sportsmen, that the horn of a rhinoceros is not tightly fixed like the tusk of an elephant or the horn of a buffalo, but can be moved backwards and forwards to a certain extent upon its root, like a loose tooth. ... |
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| On geographic grounds one would expect the Sumatran species to be more nearly related to the other Asiatic than to the African types. And this is the case. The better-known distinguishing points between the two categories of Asiatic species are supplied by the number of horns, the development of... |
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Diseases - Reasons of death
Indian Rhino
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| Reason of death old age, Male, London |
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Morphology - Size
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| Old male London Zoo at death. Greatest girth, 12 ft |
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| That the looseness of the horn was not an individual peculiarity is shown by its occurrence also in our young living specimen from Uganda, forming part of the King's collection. |
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Black Rhino
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| Within the last two months the Society [in London] has lost two of its finest show animals, namely, a nearly (perhaps quite) adult female East African rhinoceros purchased in 1906, In neither case was the exact age known, but the former was probably about seven years old, Although for three mon... |
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Indian Rhino
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| Within the last two months the Society [in London] has lost two of its finest show animals, namely, a nearly (perhaps quite) adult female East African rhinoceros purchased in 1906, and an old male Indian rhinoceros presented by the late Maharajah of Cooch Behar in 1886. In neither case was the e... |
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| In the late spring the zoo will receive from India a large and valuable consignment of animals, the gift of his Majesty King George. Two keepers will shortly be sent to Calcutta to bring home the collection. It contains a young rhinoceros, which will help to fill the gap caused by the death of ... |
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| Reason of death broncho-pneumonia, Female, London |
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Morphology - Size
Indian Rhino
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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 ... |
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