Reference Base Notes for: Morphology back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (20)  ... 16 17 18 19 20  Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Extreme length, from 12 to 13 feet   details Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Indian Rhino The hide of the rhinoceros is so very thick, being covered with huge plates, that unless struck on the head (behind the ear is also a very deadly place) bullets from a common gun do him little harm, and even rifle balls with large charges of powder, unless well placed, are ineffectual.   details Heuglin, T. von 1877 Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species From the rhinoceros which occurs in Takah, Homran, Qalabat and on the Anseba I only obtained young specimens, which are similar to the one described by Blanford, and I often saw apparently adult animals, in which the front horn was only 6 inches longer than the second one. The anterior horn has ...   details Sclater, P.L. 1877 Remarks upon a two-horned rhinoceros killed in 1876 near Comillah in Tipperah, and on a living specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus from the Sunderbans. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877 March 20: 269-270 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Length of horn 8 ? inches, shot at Comillah, Tipperah   details Heuglin, T. von 1877 Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Morphology Black Rhino Ethiopia. The colour changes from the reddish shede of meat to dirty dark browngrey, but always with a streak towards the reddish. As the animals like to wallow in mud, the hide often taken the colour of the mud which clings to its skin.   details Baldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Height, from 5 1/4 to 5 ? feet   details Garrod, A.H. 1877 On some points in the visceral anatomy of the rhinoceros of the Sunderbunds (Rhinoceros sondaicus). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877 November 6: 707-711, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Morphology Javan Rhino No details available yet   details Sclater, P.L. 1876 Exhibition and remarks upon a skin of a young rhinoceros from the Sunderbunds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876 November 7: 751 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino Mr Sclater exhibited the skin of a young rhinoceros belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, female, captured in the Sunderbunds. According to Mr. Jamrach's information, the females of the species obtained in the Sunderbunds were entirely destitute of any horn, which would appear not to be the case in the J...   details Sclater, P.L. 1876 Exhibition and remarks upon a skin of a young rhinoceros from the Sunderbunds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876 November 7: 751 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino Mr Sclater exhibited the skin of a young rhinoceros belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, female, captured in the Sunderbunds. According to Mr. Jamrach's information, the females of the species obtained in the Sunderbunds were entirely destitute of any horn, which would appear not to be the case in the J...   details Flower, W.H. 1876 On some cranial and dental characters of the existing species of rhinoceroses. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876 May 16: 443-457, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Selous, F.C. 1876 Exhibition of, and remarks on, a series of horns of African rhinoceroses. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876 January 18: 179 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Morphology African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Gervais, P.; Gervais, H. 1875 Structure de l'intestin grele chez le rhinoceros. Journal de Zoologie, Paris 4: 465-474, pls. 11-12 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Morphology Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Fraser, O.L. 1875 Note on a partially ossified nasal septum in Rhinoceros sondaicus. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 44 (1): 10-12, pl. 5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Javan Rhino IV.-Note on a partially ossified Nasal Septum in Rhinoceros Sondaicus, By O. L. FRASER. (Received 1874;-Read March 3rd, 1875.) (With Plate V.) Whilst cleaning the skull of a Rhinoceros Sondaicus lately obtained b...   details Gervais, P.; Gervais, H. 1875 Particularite anatomique remarquable du rhinoceros. Bulletin de l'Association Scientifique de France 17: 36-39 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Morphology Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Gervais, P.; Gervais, H. 1875 Sur une particularite anatomique remarquable du rhinoceros. Compte Rendu des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 81: 488-491 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Morphology Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Young Nimrod 1875 Note on the comparative size of the so-called common Indian Rhinoceros (R. indicus, Cuvier) and the Sunderbun Rhinoceros (R. sondaicus, Muller). Oriental Sporting Magazine (new series) 8 (88, April): 157 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Asian Rhino Species Note on the comparative size of the so-called common indian rhinoceros (R. indicus, Cuvier) and the sunderbun rhinoceros, (R. sondaicus, Muller). As Jerdon, in his Mammals of India, gives the size of the first named species, which he designates " the great Indian rhinoceros”— &quo...   details Sclater, P.L. 1874 Announcement of the arrival in the Society's menagerie of a Javan rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 March 17: 182-183, pl. 2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Javan Rhino The lateral shoulder-fold in R.sondaicus is continued upwards over the back of the neck, so as to cut off an independent shield which covers the nape of the neck and is shaped something like a saddle. In R.unicornis this nape-shield is continuous with the larger shield which covers the shoulders...   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Javan Rhino London Zoo. The skinfolds are of a less massive character and differ very considerably in outline and situation: there is partictilarly a saddle-shaped shield on the neck of Sondaicus of which I see no homologue in Unicornis The flattened tubercles, which in the hide of Unicornis have been comp...   details Sclater, P.L. 1874 Announcement of the arrival in the Society's menagerie of a Javan rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 March 17: 182-183, pl. 2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Indian Rhino The lateral shoulder-fold in R.sondaicus is continued upwards over the back of the neck, so as to cut off an independent shield which covers the nape of the neck and is shaped something like a saddle. In R.unicornis this nape-shield is continuous with the larger shield which covers the shoulders...   details Sclater, P.L. 1874 Announcement of the arrival in the Society's menagerie of a Javan rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 March 17: 182-183, pl. 2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Javan Rhino R. sondaicus is also much inferior in size to R. unicornis, and has a much longer extensile upper lip.   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Javan Rhino London Zoo. The tip of the upper lip is pointed and finger-like.   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Javan Rhino London Zoo. Was par- ticularly struck with the comparatively slender character of the head, which is much lower in proportion to its bulk than that of Unicornis.   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino London Zoo. The horn is little more than an apology, short and amorphous, as though the poor beast had been long in durance vile, and had worn away this instrument in its efforts to escape.   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Javan Rhino London Zoo. The skinfolds are of a less massive character and differ very considerably in outline and situation: there is partictilarly a saddle-shaped shield on the neck of Sondaicus of which I see no homologue in Unicornis The flattened tubercles, which in the hide of Unicornis have been comp...   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Javan Rhino London Zoo. the back is thickly covered with brown bristle-like hairs; a fringe of similar hairs is also observable on the margin of the ear.   details Sclater, P.L. 1874 Announcement of the arrival in the Society's menagerie of a Javan rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 March 17: 182-183, pl. 2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Javan Rhino The lateral shoulder-fold in R.sondaicus is continued upwards over the back of the neck, so as to cut off an independent shield which covers the nape of the neck and is shaped something like a saddle. In R.unicornis this nape-shield is continuous with the larger shield which covers the shoulders...   details Sclater, P.L. 1874 Announcement of the arrival in the Society's menagerie of a Javan rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 March 17: 182-183, pl. 2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Javan Rhino R. sondaicus is also much inferior in size to R. unicornis, and has a much longer extensile upper lip.   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Javan Rhino London Zoo. the back is thickly covered with brown bristle-like hairs; a fringe of similar hairs is also observable on the margin of the ear.   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Javan Rhino London Zoo. Was par- ticularly struck with the comparatively slender character of the head, which is much lower in proportion to its bulk than that of Unicornis.   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino London Zoo. The horn is little more than an apology, short and amorphous, as though the poor beast had been long in durance vile, and had worn away this instrument in its efforts to escape.   details Sclater, P.L. 1874 Announcement of the arrival in the Society's menagerie of a Javan rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 March 17: 182-183, pl. 2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Indian Rhino The lateral shoulder-fold in R.sondaicus is continued upwards over the back of the neck, so as to cut off an independent shield which covers the nape of the neck and is shaped something like a saddle. In R.unicornis this nape-shield is continuous with the larger shield which covers the shoulders...   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Javan Rhino London Zoo. The tip of the upper lip is pointed and finger-like.   details Wallace, A.R. 1874 On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino I have forwarded to you, through Dr. Jessopp, of Norwich, two Rhinoceros-horns, obtained in the Bazaar at Sibu, the principal station of the Sarawak Government in the Rejang river. These specimens, together with three others, the largest of which, measured perpendicularly, stood 8 ? inches high...   details Anonymous 1874 On the arrangement of the skin-folds in the one-horned rhinoceri. Nature 9, April 9: 446, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species In the two accompanying woodcuts Mr T.W. Wood has very carefully and accurately mapped out for us the manner in which the peculiar skin-folds, so conspicuous in both the Indian one-horned rhinoceri, are arranged over the surfaces of their bodies. The sketches were both taken from specimens now li...   details Young Nimrod 1874 An easy method for sportsmen to distinguish the common india rhinoceros, (R. Indicus), from the Soondurbun rhinoceros (R. Sondaicus). Oriental Sporting Magazine (new series) 7 (77, May): 239-240 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia Morphology Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Skeleton Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. One thing appeared to me remarkable - the condition of the hoofs; they were turned under the feet, as will be seen by the drawings. The extreme points of the hoofs were quite soft, like the same parts of a newly born calf. It is quite evident, from the manner of the turni...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. It was 3 feet in length, 2 feet high at the shoulder ; and its weight, as near as I was able to judge by lifting it, was rather over 50 lb.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Skeleton Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. One thing appeared to me remarkable - the condition of the hoofs; they were turned under the feet, as will be seen by the drawings. The extreme points of the hoofs were quite soft, like the same parts of a newly born calf. It is quite evident, from the manner of the turni...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Young in Victoria Docks, London In appearance the young Rhinoceros (see Plate XI.) reminds one of a young Ass, viewing its long legs and general mode of moving its large long head and meagre looking body. The front horn on the nose is about 3/4 of an inch high; the posterior horn is not develop...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Birth young in Victoria Docks. It was 3 feet in length, 2 feet high at the shoulder ; and its weight, as near as I was able to judge by lifting it, was rather over 50 lb.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. It was 3 feet in length, 2 feet high at the shoulder ; and its weight, as near as I was able to judge by lifting it, was rather over 50 lb.   details Gray, J.E. 1873 On the dentition of rhinoceroses (Rhinocerotes), and on the characters afforded by their skulls. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 11 (65): 356-361, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Garrod, A.H. 1873 On the visceral anatomy of the Sumatran rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus sumatrensis). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 92-104, figs. 1-8 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail : this coarse hair occurs also on the upper anterior portion of the fore legs, and more sparingly on the belly. There is a fringe...   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino it differs from R. unicornis in having two horns, one of which, the smallest, seems exactly intermediate between the eyes, and the other, the larger one, occupies the same site on the nose as the single horn of Unicornis.   details Tegetmeier, W.B. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens In: Newman, E. Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Female caught in Chittagong for London Zoo. When first captured she was about six feet in length from the forehead to the root of the tail, and upwards of four feet in height.   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin is without those enormous folds which are so imposing in R. unicornis: it has only one fold, and that is immediately behind the shoulder and extends round the barrel of the animal ; there are half-folds or large wrinkles between the ears, on the under side of the neck, and a...   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail.   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin is without those enormous folds which are so imposing in R. unicornis: it has only one fold, and that is immediately behind the shoulder and extends round the barrel of the animal ; there are half-folds or large wrinkles between the ears, on the under side of the neck, and a...   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail.   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail : this coarse hair occurs also on the upper anterior portion of the fore legs, and more sparingly on the belly. There is a fringe...   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino it differs from R. unicornis in having two horns, one of which, the smallest, seems exactly intermediate between the eyes, and the other, the larger one, occupies the same site on the nose as the single horn of Unicornis.   details Newman, E. 1872 The female rhinoceros: succesful removal of her horn. Zoologist (2) 7: 3061-3062 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino Removal of horn from female Rhinoceros unicornis . Some time back I published a brief notice of a peculiar infirmity of the female Indian rhinoceros at the Zoo (Zool. S. S. 2341), namely, that her horn was loose and toppled forward, so as to come into contact with her nose: this irritated the p...   details Tegetmeier, W.B. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens In: Newman, E. Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Female caught in Chittagong for London Zoo. When first captured she was about six feet in length from the forehead to the root of the tail, and upwards of four feet in height.   details Newman, E. 1872 The female rhinoceros: succesful removal of her horn. Zoologist (2) 7: 3061-3062 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Horn removed from female, weighed 8 ? pounds   details Grant, J.A. 1872 Summary of observations on the geography, climate, and natural history of the Lake region of Equatorial Africa, made by the Speke and Grant expedition, 1860-1863. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 42: 234-342 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size White Rhino At Delagoa Bay we saw a horn upwards of a yard in length.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The hindmost horn is the smallest and about two inches in height; it has, a quadrangular base, with two of the angles external (one posterior and the other anterior), and its apex is conical. It is placed between the eyes, but its posterior bas...   details Tegetmeier, W.B. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens In: Newman, E. Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Female caught in Chittagong for London Zoo. The horns were small, not more than three inches in length, the upper being in front of the eyes.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The ears are full and more rounded than pointed, and fringed with long, rather drooping hairs.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The ears are full and more rounded than pointed, and fringed with long, rather drooping hairs.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The eye is small.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The upper lip is anteriorly pointed and prehensile.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The tail has numerous transverse folds, and reaches nearly to a line with the groin, having long hair on the anterior and posterior borders of its lower third.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The skin is ashy grey,   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The skin is ashy grey, and covered with bristles about one inch in length, and its tubercles are small and flat.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] A most striking feature of this individual, and one which I have not seen exemplified in three adult heads of this species from Burmah which I. have examined, nor have seen referred to in any description of the species, is the long drooping hai...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] On the upper half of the trunk the bristles posterior to the shoulder-fold are almost white in some lights, with a rufous tint in others, while those anterior to the shoulder-fold are dark brown; on the lower half of the trunk and on the limbs ...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London]   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The general colour of the dry skin is ashy grey; but when moist it becomes a light brown. The axillse and under surface of the groin, and the creases formed by the folds of the body and neck when these are extended, have a fleshy tint.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino This same informant also assured me that he had seen at Mogonny a Rhinoceros-head with three horns.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The head is not much tapered ; the anterior horn, low and rounded, is placed above the nostril; the posterior horn is conical and situated above the eye; the two are separated by a considerable interval.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The hindmost horn is the smallest and about two inches in height; it has, a quadrangular base, with two of the angles external (one posterior and the other anterior), and its apex is conical. It is placed between the eyes, but its posterior bas...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Skin Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The skin is ashy grey, and covered with bristles about one inch in length, and its tubercles are small and flat.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Skin Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] A pendulous fold on the side of the neck, with the skin behind it thrown into small loose folds; a fold behind the shoulder, across the back from side to side, with a fold at its lower extremity across the fore leg; a lumbar fold from the groin...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Skin Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The shoulder-fold is the most strongly marked of all the folds, which are much less decidedly developed than in the two other species of Asiatic Rhinoceros. It is prolonged over the back from side to side, and below passes on to the outside of ...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Skin Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The tubercles of the skin are so small and flat that the skin is almost smooth; they are about the eighth of an inch in diameter; and each is surrounded by a shallow sulcks, in which usually four bristles are placed. The latter structures are e...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The female which forms the subject of these observations is about 4 feet 6 inches high at the shoulders, and about 8 feet from the snout to the root of the tail   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The female which forms the subject of these observations is about 4 feet 6 inches high at the shoulders, and about 8 feet from the snout to the root of the tail   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] it weighs nearly 2000 lbs.   details Sclater, P.L. 1871 Exhibition of, an remarks on, a horn of the male Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871 January 3: 8-11, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Huxley, T.H. 1871 A manual of the anatomy of vertebrated animals. London, J & A. Churchill, pp. 1-431 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Newman, E. 1870 The horn of the Indian rhinoceros moveable. Zoologist (2) 5: 2341 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino It is, I believe, an opinion now universally received, that the material of which the horn is composed is exactly the same as hair, that it is in fact neither more nor less than conglomerate hair.   details Blyth, E. 1870 Rhinoceros detaching its horn. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 36, 1870 August 20: 173 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino A one-horned rhino in Moscow Zoo knocked off its horn, and soon afterwards began to grow another.   details Anonymous 1870 Das erste lebende Rhinoceros in England. Ausland 43: 139-142, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino Rhinoceros unicornis . Young male in London Zoo knocked off its horn.   details Newman, E. 1870 The horn of the Indian rhinoceros moveable. Zoologist (2) 5: 2341 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino Interested, like very many others, in the curious feat of self-mutilation performed by the male rhinoceros at the Zoo, I paid him a visit on Saturday, August the 27th, expecting to see the horn itself adorned with a label notifying the particulars of so extraordinary an event: in this I was disap...   details Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Regarding the colour of the rhinoceros, this is often confusing, even when the animal is quite close, because they wallow in dirt in the hot and dry season, which, when dried up, sticks on the skin and gives the animals a bright grey colour.   details Gray, J.E. 1869 On the incisor teeth of the African rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 March 11: 225 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species Quotes from Lefebvre, Petit and Dillon, 'Voyage en Abyssinie' that there are several rhinoceros species in Abyssinia. There are those which have to, three and four horns, that is certain. It is less certain that there are those with five or six horns, but we are assured of the same.   details Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Regarding the colour of the rhinoceros, this is often confusing, even when the animal is quite close, because they wallow in dirt in the hot and dry season, which, when dried up, sticks on the skin and gives the animals a bright grey colour.   details Blyth, E. [Zoophilus] 1869 Rhinoceros horn toppling forward. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34,1869 September 4: 192 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species the female rhino has a horn which inclines forward.   details Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Morphology - Size White Rhino We have horns of 3 1/3 feet length, which should belong to R. simus.   details Gray, J.E. 1869 On the incisor teeth of the African rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 March 11: 225 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Morphology - Skull Black Rhino Skull from Abyssinia. The skull of the nearly adult female specimen of Rhinaster keitloa in the British Museum killed by Mr. Jesse in Abyssinia has the small intermaxillary bones well preserved. They are not united together in front; the dental edge has unfortunately been injured in the varriag...   details Blyth, E. 1868 Rhinoceros shedding their horns. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1: 70 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species A rhinoceros in the menagerie at Moscow had shed its horn. This is not unusual. In Tenasserim he had seen old rhinoceroses with very small horns, and it occurred to him as not impossible that those might have shed their old horn, and that the horns they bore were young ones just grown.   details Lubach, D. 1868 Bijkomende hoorn bij rhinocerossen. Album der Natuur 1868 bijblad: 88 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino Blyth mentions that there may be a tendency in all rhinoceros species to develop an additional horn. This extra horn, situated behind the usual one, always remains small. An example was the large female R. indicus in London Zoo. Raffles mentions a third horn sometimes found in R. sumatranus, a...   details Milne Edwards, H. 1868 Observations sur le stereocere de Gall. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris (5) 10: 203-221, pls. 12-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Morphology - Skull Javan Rhino Pl. 12 is a vertical section of the head of the one-horned rhinoceros of Java.   details Blyth, E. 1868 Rhinoceros horns. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1: 130-131 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino A female Indian rhino in the London Zoo shows a rudimentary or small horn on the forehead. Earlier one similar to this had broken off.   details Owen, R. 1868 On the anatomy of vertebrates, vol 3. Mammals. London, Longmans, Green and Co, pp. i-x, 1-915 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (20)  ... 16 17 18 19 20