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Reference Base  The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora a... |
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The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata |
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Sclater, W.L. |
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1900 |
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London, R.H. Porter |
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pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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Anatomy - Reproductive organs
White Rhino
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| Two mammae. |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| upper lip straight and round with no trace of a proboscis. |
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Morphology
Black Rhino
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| general colour slaty grey, not noticeably darker than the other species. |
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White Rhino
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| ears longer and more pointed than in the other species, springing from a closed cylinder about three inches long |
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Ecology - Food
Black Rhino
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| Its food consists entirely of the leaves, twigs, and sometimes the roots of certain bushes and shrubs, never of grass. |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| colour not perceptibly lighter than the other species, being a slaty grey black. |
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| upper lip straight and round with no trace of a proboscis. |
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| Dentition i. 2 to 0/ 2 to 0, c. 0/ 1 to 0, pm 4/4, m. 3/3 = 28 to 38; incisors and canines variable in number, often absent, premolars and molars in a continuous series, and resembling one another in general plan, except that the anterior one is considerably smaller and often deciduous; upper mol... |
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Morphology - Skull
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| As in the other species there are no incisors or canines in either jaw, though indistinct marks of the sockets can be seen; moreover, the premaxillae are much reduced, and consist only of two small nodules of bone at the tips of the maxillae. |
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Morphology - Skull
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| Skull of large size, elevated posteriorly into a transverse occipital crest; temporal and orbital fossae confluent with no post-orbital process or bar separating them; nasal bones large and stout, co-ossified together and separated from the premaxillae by a wide fissure. |
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