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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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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Skull. Locality: Cape. Collected by: Burke, for Lord Derby. In coll. Liverpool Museum, United Kingdom. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Skeleton. Sex: Female. Locality: Cape of Good Hope. Collected by: Verreaux, Ed., 1846. In Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Skin. Locality: South Africa, Zululand. Collected by: Varndell, C.R., 1894. In coll. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa. Donated by Carl Jeppe |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Skin of adult. Sex: Female. Locality: Cape Colony. In Museum Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Sir H. H. Johnston, in his work on British Central Africa, states that a pair of horns, resembling those of the white rhinoceros, and obtained near the Ruo River, were sent home in 1895. The anterior horn was very long, slender, and directed forwards (kab |
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Morphology - Horn
White Rhino
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| 2. When Denham and Clapperton returned home from their Central African expedition of 1822-24, they presented to the British Museum two remarkable light-coloured and transparent horns. It is interesting to remember that the horns of the white rhinoceros are pale-coloured on section, and that Sir... |
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World
Morphology - Horn
African Rhino Species
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| The horns of the white rhinoceros are pale-coloured, and those of the black rhinoceros are black, hence since these structures are but agglutinated hair, it may be inferred that if these anmals' bodies were hirsute instead of naked, then would R. simus be truly white, and R. bicornis truly black.... |
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Africa
History
African Rhino Species
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| Unicorn in Africa. The anterior horn of this individual is said to have been 3 ft. long; and, as figured, from its slenderness recalls Col. Hamilton Smith's description of the mysterious horn, brought from Africa, from which he sought to deduce the existence of a true unicorn in the interior o... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana
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White Rhino
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| Dr. Gunning, of the Pretoria Museum and Zoological Gardens, kindly informs me that four individuals still linger near Lake Ngami: there were eleven before the outbreak of the war in 1899, four in Zululand, and seven near Ngami. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
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African Rhino Species
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| early records of Ceratotherium simum cottoni.
3. Speke has stated that his party in 1864 shot several of the `white two-horned rhinoceros' in Karagweh, East Africa, and expressly says that the species killed was larger than the black rhinoceros.
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Natural history essays
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