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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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Taxonomy - Evolution
Fossil
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| Further, I have recently examined a front horn of the allied extinct Rhinoceros antiquitatis, and this strikingly resembled a white rhinoceros horn in my possession. Both specimens were markedly fibrous in texture, translucent, and had the posterior margin sharply defined. At its base the foss... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Names in vernacular
White Rhino
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| Chuckuroo |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Names in vernacular
White Rhino
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| Mohohu |
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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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| Feet broad, leaving a wide spoor or footmark about 36 in. circumference. (Kirby). |
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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Black Rhino
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| The black R. bicornis brought into Cassala (purchased in 1868 by the Zoological Society of London) did not die till 1891, when it succumbed to cancer and not to old age. The forward inclination of the anterior horn is not however confined to the white rhinoceros. The example of the black specie... |
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Ecology - Interspecific Relations
White Rhino
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| these colossi were continually attended by their winged sentinels, the faithful rhinoceros bird (Buphaga africana), ever alert to give their dull-witted hosts notice of approaching danger by their shrill cries, or by thrusting their beaks into their ears. |
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Morphology
Black Rhino
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| Feet smaller: spoor about 27 in. circumference. (Kirby). |
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Captive - Africa
Captivity - Zoo Records
White Rhino
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| 1891. Messrs. Eyre and Coryndon, in August, 1892, saw a bull, cow and calf all together: the next day they met a large cow, a half-grown individual, and a calf. The calf died in captivity after a few days. |
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Captive - Europe
Diseases - Reasons of death
Black Rhino
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| The black R. bicornis brought into Cassala (purchased in 1868 by the Zoological Society of London) did not die till 1891, when it succumbed to cancer and not to old age |
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Natural history essays
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