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| Title: |
Natural history essays |
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Renshaw, G. |
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1904 |
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London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes |
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pp. i-xv, 1-218 |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Tail 2 feet long |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Maximum weight estimated at 5000 pounds (Andersson). |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| Upper lip square, non-prehensile and adapted for grazing. |
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Taxonomy - Taxa
African Rhino Species
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| The white rhinoceros is a larger animal than the black species, from which it may at once be differentiated by the square, rubber-like and non-prehensile upper lip. Other distinguishing characters of Rhinoceros simus are the slit-like nostrils, the characteristic position of the eye behind the l... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Captivity - Zoo Records
White Rhino
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| In captivity the white rhinoceros has proved a most disappointin animal, dying even when taken quite young from no obvious cause. None of the calves which have been captured from time to time have survived long enough to be taken down country, to say nothing of being brought to Europe, so that t... |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| Upper lip square, non-prehensile and adapted for grazing. |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| Eye situated entirely behind line of second horn. |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| Ears semi-tubular and scantily tufted. |
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Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
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| Chewing mud. Photo of Rhinoceros unicornis, animal was actually chewing the mud when the photo was taken. |
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Morphology - Horn
White Rhino
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| The posterior horn is often little more than a mere dermal excrescence, and it was probably from this cause that the natives in Sir A. Smith's day informed him that a race of one-horned rhinoceroses inhabited South Africa. |
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Natural history essays
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