Reference Base Notes for: Morphology back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (20)  ... 3 4 5 6 7 ...   Cave, A.J.E. 1987 The pattern of aortic arch branching in the Rhinocerotidae. Journal of Zoology, London 213: 253-261, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Happold, D.C.D. 1987 The mammals of Nigeria. Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp. i-xvii, 1-402 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Black Rhino Length of body 360 cm   details Maluf, N.S.R. 1987 Kidney of the Great Indian rhino, Rhinoceros unicornis, Linnaeus. American Journal of Anatomy 180: 403-421, figs. 1-43, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Morphology Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Goswami, U.C.; Bhattacharyya, B.K.; Sarma, P.K. 1987 Placenta of rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Current Science, Bangalore 56 (8): 380-381, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Morphology - Embryo (Foetus) Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Hitchins, P.M. 1986 Earlessness in the black rhinoceros - a warning. Pachyderm 7: 8-10, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino Absence of ear pinna in Diceros bicornis, South Africa. Unilateral or bilateral earlessness (i.e. lack of pinnae) in the black rhinoceros has been recorded from a number of populations in eastern and southern Africa (Goddard, 1969; Hitchins and Anderson, 1 983). These authors have attributed th...   details Naik, S.N.; Ishwad, C.S.; Karawale, M.S.; Wani, M.V. 1986 Squamous cell carcinoma in an Indian rhinoceros. Veterinary Record 118: 590-591, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino The Indian rhinoceros has a single horn made up of filamentous tubules of keratin which aee secreted by the skin and cemented together to form a hard projection. This projection is fixed to the skin and does not have a bone support like the horn of ruminants.   details Boyde, A.; Fortelius, M. 1986 Development, structure and function of rhinoceros enamel. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 87 (2): 181-214, figs. 1-52 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Hitchins, P.M. 1986 Earlessness in the black rhinoceros - a warning. Pachyderm 7: 8-10, figs. 1-5, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino Absence of ear pinna in Diceros bicornis, South Africa. Unilateral or bilateral earlessness (i.e. lack of pinnae) in the black rhinoceros has been recorded from a number of populations in eastern and southern Africa (Goddard, 1969; Hitchins and Anderson, 1 983). These authors have attributed th...   details Neuschulz, N.; Puschmann, W. 1986 Verlust und Neubildung des Vorderhornes beim Spitzmaulnashorn (Diceros bicornis). Felis 4: 51-54, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Morphology Black Rhino No details available yet   details Blaszkiewitz, B. 1986 Diceros 'tricornis' - ein 3-horniges Spitzmaulnashorn im Berliner Zoo. Bongo, Berlin 11: 123-124 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Naik, S.N.; Ishwad, C.S.; Karawale, M.S.; Wani, M.V. 1986 Squamous cell carcinoma in an Indian rhinoceros. Veterinary Record 118: 590-591, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Over most of its body the Indian rhinoceros has a very thick skin arranged in characteristic massive folds, but on the nose the skin is thin.   details Anonymous 1986 Das Horn des Nashorns. Panda, Wien 1986: 44, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Gallagher, J.A.; Dillon, J.P.; Sheard, C.E. 1986 Rhinoceros bone cells in culture. Abstracts of the Bone and Tooth Society Meeting 1986: 313 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Skeleton All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Hillman Smith, K. 1986 Notes on dentition, cranial and body measurements of the northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni). Journal of Zoology, London 210: 377-379 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Morphology Nile Rhino No details available yet   details Baryshnikov, G.F.; Guérin, C. 1986 Ostatki nosoroga Dicerorhinus etruscus brachycephalus iz ashel’skogo sloya peshchery Kudaro 1 (Bol’shoy Kavkaz) [Remains of the rhinoceros Dicerorhinus etruscus brachycephalus from the Acheulean Layer of the cave Kudaro 1 (Greater Caucasus)] (in Vereshchagin N.K. & Kuz’mina I.E., eds: Mleklopitayushchie Chetvertichnoy Fauny SSSR). Trudy ZIN AN SSSR, Izd-vo AN SSSR, Moskva/Leningrad 149: 62-73, 7 figs., 8 tabs. Location: Subject: Species: Asia - West Asia Morphology - Skull Fossil No details available yet   details Baryshnikov, G.F.; Guérin, C. 1986 Ostatki nosoroga Dicerorhinus etruscus brachycephalus iz ashel’skogo sloya peshchery Kudaro 1 (Bol’shoy Kavkaz) [Remains of the rhinoceros Dicerorhinus etruscus brachycephalus from the Acheulean Layer of the cave Kudaro 1 (Greater Caucasus)] (in Vereshchagin N.K. & Kuz’mina I.E., eds: Mleklopitayushchie Chetvertichnoy Fauny SSSR). Trudy ZIN AN SSSR, Izd-vo AN SSSR, Moskva/Leningrad 149: 62-73, 7 figs., 8 tabs. Location: Subject: Species: Asia - West Asia Morphology - Skull Fossil See also Guérin & Baryshnikov (1987), a paper (in French) concerning the same remains from the Kudaro-1 cave.   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino The quantity and distribution of the animal's hair varies from one to another, though it seems most abundant in young animals, and the skin on the face and within the deep folds running round the whole body is usually hairless. The ears are lined with specially thick hair and trimmed with a frin...   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino The hair, anything from off-white to black in colour   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino The horns, smaller in the female, match the body colour, usually a darkish grey.   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino The quantity and distribution of the animal's hair varies from one to another, though it seems most abundant in young animals, and the skin on the face and within the deep folds running round the whole body is usually hairless. The ears are lined with specially thick hair and trimmed with a frin...   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino The hair, anything from off-white to black in colour   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino The horns, smaller in the female, match the body colour, usually a darkish grey.   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino Each of the broad, flat feet bears three nails. The measurements of rhino footprints seem to vary with the quality of the ground, for the soft skin beneath the feet is quite elastic.   details Plage, D.; Plage, M. 1985 In the shadow of Krakatau: return of Java's wildlife. National Geographic 167 (6): 750-771, figs. 1-31 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Height at shoulder 5 feet tall   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino Each of the broad, flat feet bears three nails. The measurements of rhino footprints seem to vary with the quality of the ground, for the soft skin beneath the feet is quite elastic.   details Plage, D.; Plage, M. 1985 In the shadow of Krakatau: return of Java's wildlife. National Geographic 167 (6): 750-771, figs. 1-31 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Weight 3500 pounds   details Plage, D.; Plage, M. 1985 In the shadow of Krakatau: return of Java's wildlife. National Geographic 167 (6): 750-771, figs. 1-31 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Length of horn. Male about 10 inches, often absent or a small bulge in the female   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino The horns, smaller in the female. The front horn is always the larger of the two, and the horns seem to develop at different rates, for some of the rhinos with the largest front horns on record had mere knobs as back ones. The horns can be replaced if they are lost, for they grow throughout life   details Nardelli, F. 1985 The Sumatran Rhinoceros Project. Help Newsletter, Port Lympne 7: 4-8, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Rarely more than 135 cm at the shoulder   details Rueedi, D. 1985 Das 20. Zolli-Panzernashorn gestorben. Zolli, Basel 54: 13, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Weight of a male born in Basel (Gandak) after one year was 600 kg.   details Eisenmann, V.; Guerin, C. 1984 Morphologie fonctionnelle et environnement chez les Perissodactyles. Geobios Memoire Special No. 8: 69-74, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Shariff, K.M. 1983 Status and distribution of Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 2: 91-102, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Two animals at Tenggaroh, Malaysia. Body length from head to tail 200 cm (female), 183 cm.   details Shariff, K.M. 1983 Status and distribution of Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 2: 91-102, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Measurements of tracks in Taman Negara Hindfoot track (cm) Central Toe 1. 20.0 / 20.0 / 20.2 / 21.0 / 21.0 / 21.0 8.0 / 8.0 / 8.0 / 9.0 / 9.0 / 9.0 2. 20.2 / 20.2 8.5 / 8.5 3. 15.0 / 15.0 / 23.0 / 22.5 / 22.0 4.5 / 4.3 / 8.5 / 9.0 / 8.8 4....   details Shariff, K.M. 1983 Status and distribution of Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 2: 91-102, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Morphology Sumatran Rhino Malaysia. Whenever fresh tracks were encountered, they were followed, taking measurements of the footprint of the hind feet. The footprints of the forefeet were not taken as they were usually trampled over by the footprints of the hindfeet. The only track that could be mistaken for a rhinocero...   details Shariff, K.M. 1983 Status and distribution of Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 2: 91-102, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Morphology Sumatran Rhino Malaysia. Whenever fresh tracks were encountered, they were followed, taking measurements of the footprint of the hind feet. The footprints of the forefeet were not taken as they were usually trampled over by the footprints of the hindfeet. The only track that could be mistaken for a rhinocero...   details Anonymous 1983 Extinct rhino spotted again. Malayan Naturalist 36 (2): 43 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Horn Asian Rhino Species The three-horned rhino [sic] is said to be roaming the jungles of West Kalimantan.   details Shariff, K.M. 1983 Status and distribution of Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 2: 91-102, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Two animals at Tenggaroh, Malaysia. Height at shoulder 122 cm (female), 130 cm.   details Shariff, K.M. 1983 Status and distribution of Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Wildlife and Parks (Malaysia) 2: 91-102, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Two animals at Tenggaroh, Malaysia. Length of anterior horn, 10 cm (female), 5 cm.   details Martin, E.B. 1983 Rhino horn weights. Traffic Bulletin 5 (2): 23 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Morphology White Rhino No details available yet   details Strien, N.J. van 1983 A guide to the tracks of the mammals of western Indonesia. Ciawi, School of Environmental Conservation Management, pp. i-viii, 1-44 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Morphology Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Janis, C.M. 1982 Evolution of horns in ungulates - ecology and palaeoecology. Biological Review (Cambridge Philosophical Society) 57 (2): 261-317 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Fossil No details available yet   details Cave, A.J.E. 1982 Note on rhinoceros salivary glands. Journal of Zoology, London 196 (1): 53-61, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Kohle, A. 1981 Aus der Geschichte des Kolner Zoos: bemerkenswerte Saugetiere des Tierbestandes. Zeitschrift des Kolner Zoo 24 (3): 103-106, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Cologne Zoo. The first black rhino arrived end February 1908 when it was 5 months old, from British East Africa. At arrival it was 60 cm high and 69 kg weight. After 5 months it was 170 kg, end August 208 kg, early March 1909 estimated 450-500 kg and 110 cm high.   details Cave, A.J.E. 1981 Observations on the rhinoceros cardiac receptor system. Journal of Zoology, London 195: 243-254, pl. 1, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Kohle, A. 1981 Aus der Geschichte des Kolner Zoos: bemerkenswerte Saugetiere des Tierbestandes. Zeitschrift des Kolner Zoo 24 (3): 103-106, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Animal in Cologne Zoo, weight on 3.2 1891 was 3300 g (height 23.5 cm)   details Marc, C. 1981 Contribution a l'etude des tetes ossueuses des grands mammiferes du haut-Zaire et du Kivu. Kisangani, Cooperation Technique Universitaire Belge, projet 14 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Morphology - Skull Nile Rhino No details available yet   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino The greater part of the body is covered with bristles varying from red-brown to black. The hairy fringes of the ears and the body are lost with age.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The horn is formed of a closely matted mass of horny fibre issuing from the skin. It has no connection with the skull, although a boss of bone in the skull may serve as its foundation.   details Vos, V. de; Braack, H.H. 1980 Castration of a black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis minor. Koedoe 23: 185-187, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino The unilaterally earless adult black rhinoceros bull, as depicted (Fig.1) was caught in the Hluhluwe Nature Reserve and translocated to the Addo Elephant National Park during September 1977. Two other adult black rhino bulls with normal external ears made up the full consignment. They were intr...   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The horns grow throughout life and if lost are re-produced.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Indian Rhino The skin in all the living forms is either thinly clad with hair or naked, and in all the Indian species the heavy hide in places is thrown into deep folds. The skin of this massive creature is divided into great shields by heavy folds before and behind the shoulders and in front of the thighs. ...   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino The greater part of the body is covered with bristles varying from red-brown to black. The hairy fringes of the ears and the body are lost with age.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Circumference11 ft (335 cm) behind the withers   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Javan Rhino In distinction to the Great Indian Onehorned Rhinoceros the fold of skin before the shoulder is carried right across the back in this animal. The hide is marked all over with a curious mosaic-like pattern.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Indian Rhino The skin in all the living forms is either thinly clad with hair or naked, and in all the Indian species the heavy hide in places is thrown into deep folds. The skin of this massive creature is divided into great shields by heavy folds before and behind the shoulders and in front of the thighs. ...   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Javan Rhino In distinction to the Great Indian Onehorned Rhinoceros the fold of skin before the shoulder is carried right across the back in this animal. The hide is marked all over with a curious mosaic-like pattern.   details Fountain, C. 1980 Three-horned rhinos. International Zoo News 27 (4): 17 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Daly (1937, Big game hunting and adventure) has a photo of black rhino shot in Tanaland showing the growth of a third horn. Also animal in Lisbon Zoo had third horn. Maybe this is a hereditary genetic defect as these animals came from the same region.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Indian Rhino A male may reach over 6 ft 9180 cm) at the shoulder. Average height is about 5 ft 8 in (170 cm).   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Male: height at shoulder, 4 ft. 4 ? in. (135 cm.)   details Vos, V. de; Braack, H.H. 1980 Castration of a black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis minor. Koedoe 23: 185-187, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino The unilaterally earless adult black rhinoceros bull, as depicted (Fig.1) was caught in the Hluhluwe Nature Reserve and translocated to the Addo Elephant National Park during September 1977. Two other adult black rhino bulls with normal external ears made up the full consignment. They were intr...   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Old bulls measure about 5 ft. 10 in. (180 cm.) at the shoulder.   details Cave, A.J.E. 1980 The rhinoceros lingual intrinsic musculature. Mammalia 44 (1): 123-128, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Male: girth behind the withers, a little over 7 ft. (215 cm.).   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Javan Rhino The single horn is never very long ; 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm.) is the record. The horn does not appear to be developed in the females or, if developed at all, it is only a low boss.   details Prater, S.H. 1980 The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Indian Rhino The horns do not compare in length with the African species. The record from Assam measures 24 in. (61 cm.); 8 in. (203 mm.) at the present day is a good average.   details Rensberger, J.M.; Koenigswald, W. v. 1980 Functional and phylogenetic interpretation of enamel microstructure in rhinoceroses. Paleobiology 6 (4): 477-495, figs. 1-19. Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Colyn, M. 1980 Osteologie descriptive de Ceratotherium simum cottoni Lydekker, 1908. Kisangani, Cooperation Technique Universitaire Belge, projet 14, pp. 1-201, pls. 1-96 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Morphology - Skeleton Nile Rhino Note that this appears to be a very rare book. I have only found one in a library catalogue. There will be a few others. The copy used here is from the collection of the late Dr Colin P. Groves. The book is printed, and consists largely of plates of skull and skeletal parts of the white rhinocero...   details Veevers-Carter, W. 1979 Land mammals of Indonesia. Jakarta, PT Intermasa Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The 'horn' is actually made of matter horny fibre resembling the human fingernail and issuing from the skin, and not of bone.   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino Male shot Dec 1801 at Koussie Fountain. perfectly bald excepting a few coarse bristles on the tip of the ears and extemity of the tail - and the eye lashes.   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino Male shot Dec 1801 at Koussie Fountain. The whole skin is of a disagreeable ash colour approaching to that of a toad.   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species both are solid masses of horn   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Male shot at Koussie Fountain 1801 the foremost horn was split and wore [sic] in several places - a circumstance common to the males.   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino Male shot Dec 1801 at Koussie Fountain. perfectly bald excepting a few coarse bristles on the tip of the ears and extemity of the tail - and the eye lashes.   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino The upper lip falls in a curve from the base of the first horn like the hawk bill turtle.   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Morphology - Size Black Rhino Male shot 27 Dec 1801 - S Africa. Length from nose to root of tail, 10 feet 6 inch Length --- to behind the ear, 2 feet 9 inch Length from behind the ear to behind crest, 2 feet 9 inch   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino Male shot Dec 1801 at Koussie Fountain. perfectly bald excepting a few coarse bristles on the tip of the ears and extemity of the tail - and the eye lashes.   details Hickman, G.C. 1979 An inverted tooth in a white rhinoceros. Lammergeyer 27: 46-47, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Skull White Rhino Ceratotherium simum - inverted lower PM1. Male collected in Umfolozi in 1961. The right ramus of the mandible had previously been broken and PM1 rotated through 180 degrees in a transverse plane, fixing the tooth in an inverted position. The occlusal surface was buried deep in the ramus, and th...   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino Male shot Dec 1801 at Koussie Fountain. The whole skin is of a disagreeable ash colour approaching to that of a toad.   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino Male shot Dec 1801 at Koussie Fountain. perfectly bald excepting a few coarse bristles on the tip of the ears and extemity of the tail - and the eye lashes.   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Morphology - Size Black Rhino Male shot Dec 1801 - South Africa. Length of tail, 2 feet   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino The upper lip falls in a curve from the base of the first horn like the hawk bill turtle.   details Cave, A.J.E. 1979 The rhinoceros faucial and laryngopharyngeal tonsils. Journal of Zoology, London 187: 471-503, pl. 1, figs. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Cave, A.J.E. 1979 The mammalian tempero-pterygoid ligament. Journal of Zoology, London 188 (4): 517-532, figs. 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Morphology - Size Black Rhino Male shot Dec 1801 - South Africa, Length of fore horn, 1 foot 4 inch Length of second horn, 10 inch Circumference base of large horn, 2 feet   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Morphology - Size Black Rhino Male shot Dec 1801 - South Africa. Length of ear, 9 inch. Distance across the ears, 1 foot 1 inch   details Bradlow, E.; Bradlow, F.R. 1979 William Somerville's narrative of the journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoo 1799-1802. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, Works Second Series, vol. 10, pp. i-iv, 1-253 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Morphology - Size Black Rhino Male shot Dec 1801 - South Africa. Circumference round the belly, 9 feet   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Rear horn may reach 5 inches but is usually just a knob.   details Vos, V. de 1978 Congenital unilateral aotus in a black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis bicornis (Linn., 1758). Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 49: 71, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Black Rhino Absence pinna in male from Hluhluwe, South Africa. The unilaterally earless adult black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis bicornis bull, as depicted, was caught in the Hluhluwe Nature Reserve and translocated to the Addo Elephant National Park during September 1977. Two other adult black rhino bulls ...   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology Sumatran Rhino Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult.   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology Sumatran Rhino Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult.   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Horn Asian Rhino Species There they travelled about at their leisure, wandering this way and that, following no particular route, bulldozing through obstructions by lifting them up with the front horn. The two horns seem to be no more than a sort of fork lift used to raise up obstructions in its path.   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Male 8-9 feet long, female slightly smaller.   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Longest front horn 19 inches, but 10 inch is about average.   details Brouard, P. 1978 Lisbon's unusual zoo guest, a 3-horn black rhino (Diceros bicornis). International Zoo News 25 (2): 12-13, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Black Rhino December 1977, an unusual black rhino was on view. Its head prides itself not only on the normal two horns, but on three horns, the latter having no common characteristic with the third horn which possibly appears in Asiatic species. The third horn is situated far from the two conventional ones...   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino The skin is said to be more than half an inch thick but the epidermis is very thin and I believe dries very quickly. There is a deep fold in the skin behind the shoulder and another not so deep, just in front of the hind quarters.   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology Sumatran Rhino Borneo. Rhino tracks often show the toes of the fore-feet dug well into the ground, the toes of the hind feet imprinted on them to produce a ridge and furrow pattern characteristic of the Rhinoceros.   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology Sumatran Rhino Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult.   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology Sumatran Rhino Borneo. I have never seen a live Rhino. I believe they look like a very large Pig, black and hairy when young, grey and more or less hairless when adult.   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Male height 4-5 feet, female slightly smaller   details Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino The skin is said to be more than half an inch thick but the epidermis is very thin and I believe dries very quickly. There is a deep fold in the skin behind the shoulder and another not so deep, just in front of the hind quarters.   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (20)  ... 3 4 5 6 7 ...