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| Title: |
Natural history essays |
| Author(s): |
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
Black Rhino
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| Nostrils small and rounded. |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Maximum recorded length of anterior horn (mohohu) 62 ? inches: of anterior horn (kabaoba) 56 ? inches.
Maximum recorded length of posterior horn two feet.
Mounted specimen Tring Museum - anterior 1 ft 11 inch, posterior 8 inch
Young adult male in BMNH - anterior 1 ft 7 inch, posterior 7 inch... |
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Black Rhino
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| Upper lip pointed, prehensile, and adapted for browsing. |
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Black Rhino
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| Ears open: fringed on upper edge. |
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White Rhino
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| Nostrils slit-like, elongated, and narrow. |
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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Black Rhino
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| The forward inclination of the anterior horn is not however confined to the white rhinoceros. The example of the black species in the Berlin Zoological Gardens has the front horn pointing forwards an angle of 45 degrees. |
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Black Rhino
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| Eye situated behind axis of second horn. |
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White Rhino
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| In 1812 Dr. Burchell found the white rhinoceros abundant in the Batlapin country, near Letakoo (Kuruman), the species being first met with in 26 deg. S. latitude. Science is indebted to Burchell for the first definite account of Rhinoceros simus: a short description of the animal, which he comm... |
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| A number of long slender horns were sent some years ago by the late Mr. F. Holmwood and assigned to a hypothetical Rhinoceros holmwoodi. They have not only been supposed to indicate a species allied to the white rhinoceros but the holmwoodi horn now exhibited in the mammal gallery of the Natural... |
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| The second type (kabaoba) is directed forwards, so that the anterior surface is often much worn by repeated contact with the ground when its owner grazes: this is well seen in the type kabaoba horn which Col. Steele presented to the British Museum many years ago. The kabaoba was long described a... |
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Natural history essays
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