Reference Base Notes for: Morphology - Horn back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3  Daly, M. 1937 Big game hunting and adventure 1887-1936. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xi, 1-322 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Photo of an old rhino of Tanaland, showing the growth of a third horn (behind the second horn).   details Mitchell, E. 1936 A curious rhino horn (from Mt. Kenya). Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 1936 July 3: 38, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Morphology - Horn Black Rhino No details available yet   details Dove, W.F. 1935 The physiology of horn growth: a study of the morphogenesis, the interaction of tissues, and the evolotionary processes of a Mendelian recessive character by means of transplantation of tissues. Journal of Experimental Zoology 69 (3): 347-405, pls. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species Horns of rhinoceros are considered by almost all writers as a structure composed entirely of hair, containing no bony core. In reality the composite hair is similar to the bony sheath of domestic cattle, and a bony excescence is present, but in a very diminished form. Skulls show that the bony ...   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species All the living rhinoceroses are included in a single genus. Their massive build, the thickness and solidity of their bones, their short stumpy legs each furnished with three toes are some of the family characters. The skin in all the living forms is either thinly clad with hair or naked and in ...   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino The horns of the Indian Rhinoceros never compare with those of the African. The record from Assam measures 24 in., 15-16 in. is a good average length. The males may be recognised from the females by a shorter and thicker horn blunted by frequent combats. The female's horn is sharper and longer.   details Prater, S.H. 1934 The wild animals of the Indian Empire and the problem of their preservation, part II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Supplement: 57-96, pls. 15-36 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino The horns of the Indian Rhinoceros never compare with those of the African. The record from Assam measures 24 in., 15-16 in. is a good average length. The males may be recognised from the females by a shorter and thicker horn blunted by frequent combats. The female's horn is sharper and longer.   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino For many years there has been in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology a mounted specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus. The specimen is a somewhat immature female, and in place of a horn, has merely a large knob on the end of the snout.   details Barbour, T.; Allen, G.M. 1932 The lesser one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Mammalogy 13: 144-149, pl. 11 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino For many years there has been in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology a mounted specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus. The specimen is a somewhat immature female, and in place of a horn, has merely a large knob on the end of the snout.   details Boas, J.E.V. 1931 Hoerner: pp. 545-552, figs. 351-360 In: Bolk, L. et al. Handbuch der vergleichende Anatomie. Berlin and Wien, Urban and Schwarzenberg: vol. 1, pp. i-xvi, 1-752 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The unpaired horn of the rhinoceros is obviously very different from other horns. It is a large cone-shaped mass of horn, in the base of which numerous small skin papillae penetrate in their own tubes. These tubes become increasinly narrow going in distal direction, because they are slowly fill...   details Anthony, W.E. 1928 Horns and antlers: their evolution, occurrence and functions in the Mammalia, part I. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 31 (6): 179-214 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The horn is strictly a fabrication of materials derived from the epidermis, in effect it is made up of agglutinated hair. The rhino has lost the hair from most of its body, the skin being practically hairless, but on its rostrum the hairs have ceased to function solely as a covering, and matting...   details Anthony, W.E. 1928 Horns and antlers: their evolution, occurrence and functions in the Mammalia, part I. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 31 (6): 179-214 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The horn is a very capable weapon.   details Anthony, W.E. 1928 Horns and antlers: their evolution, occurrence and functions in the Mammalia, part I. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 31 (6): 179-214 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The animal frequently wears grooves or furrows in its horn.   details Wieschke, R. 1927 Nashoerner. Mitteilungen der Frankfurt Zoo 1927: 5-8, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The horns can be used for different purposes. Sometimes the animal uses it to uproot small trees and shrubs, of which he likes to eat the roots, sometimes to clear paths thorugh the forest, and not in the least as a weapon.   details Wieschke, R. 1927 Nashoerner. Mitteilungen der Frankfurt Zoo 1927: 5-8, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species Wunderlich has shown that the horns can be shed at regular intervals and then grow again. At first the spot where the horn is attached looks like a wound and can be recognized by a lot of blood vessels. The new horn grows again slowly. This has only been witnessed in the Indian rhinoceros, not...   details Schouteden, H. 1927 Les rhinoceros congolais. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bulletin du Cercle Zoologique Congolais) 4 (1): 19-30, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino In the black species one sometimes finds individuals of which the posterior horn is longer than the anterior one, a race once called keitloa.   details Schouteden, H. 1927 Les rhinoceros congolais. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bulletin du Cercle Zoologique Congolais) 4 (1): 19-30, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino In the black species one sometimes finds individuals of which the posterior horn is longer than the anterior one, a race once called keitloa.   details Jordan, A.K. 1927 An elephant with six tusks and a rhino with three horns. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 150 (3892), 1927 July 28: 167 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Morphology - Horn Black Rhino No details available yet   details Bevan, J.O. 1922 East African rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 139 (3626), 1922 June 24: 879 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Morphology - Horn Black Rhino No details available yet   details Dollman, J.G. 1921 Catalogue of the Selous collection of big game in the British Museum (Natural History). London, Trustees of the British Museum., pp. i-vii, 1-112 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Front horn with rounded base.   details Harmer, S.F. 1921 Exhibition of a specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1921 May 10: 643 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino Exhibited mounted specimen of a young female Rhinoceros sondaicus presented by T.R. Hubback, who shot it in Lower Tenasserim, to the BMNH. Attention was called to the absence of a horn in the female, a character which Mr Hubback believes to be normal.   details Dollman, J.G. 1921 Catalogue of the Selous collection of big game in the British Museum (Natural History). London, Trustees of the British Museum., pp. i-vii, 1-112 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Front horn with rounded base.   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino It also has two horns, which are variable in length and shape, but never apparently attaining anything like the length of those of a White Rhino.   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino There are two horns on the face which vary much in size and shape.   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino It also has two horns, which are variable in length and shape, but never apparently attaining anything like the length of those of a White Rhino.   details Haagner, A. 1920 South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino There are two horns on the face which vary much in size and shape.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino The iris is brown, the horns and nails blackish.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino The iris is brown, the horns and nails blackish.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino The animal also occurs in Borneo and is said to be especially numerous in the mountain range near the sources of the southern tributaries of the Upper Kapoeas and the Melawi Rivers. The natives tell about a species with three horns and Mr Pryer once saw a skull with three horns, although the thi...   details Anonymous 1914 Notas cinegeticas: el rinoceronte. Caras y caretas (Buenos Aires) no. 812 (1914-04-25): 39 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Pocock, R.I. 1912 The Zoological Society (The death of two rhinoceroses; measurements of Indian rhinoceroses; some characters of rhinoceroses; the King's collection of Indian animals). Field 119 (3082), 20 January 1912: 143, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species There is one more point. I have never seen it recorded, although it may be known to sportsmen, that the horn of a rhinoceros is not tightly fixed like the tusk of an elephant or the horn of a buffalo, but can be moved backwards and forwards to a certain extent upon its root, like a loose tooth. ...   details Ward, R.; Lydekker, R. 1912 Note on remarkable rhinoceros horn. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 119 (3082), 1912 January 20: 144, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The specimen combines characters usually considered as respectively distinctive of simus and bicornis. In the form of the roughened base, which presents a sub-circular section, it approximates, for instance, to the bicornis type while above this it presents the flattened front surface characteri...   details Ward, R.; Lydekker, R. 1912 Note on remarkable rhinoceros horn. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 119 (3082), 1912 January 20: 144, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species The accompanying photograph represents an African rhinoceros horn, belonging to Hon. Walter Rothschild, which seems to have the characters of both Rhinoceros simus and Rhinoceros bicornis. Three inches from its base the horn has almost a flat front surface like simus, but within 2 feet of the ti...   details Lyell, D.D. 1912 Nyasaland for the hunter and settler. London, Horace Cox, pp. i-xi, 1-116 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino I shot one in N.E. Rhodesia [Zambia] with the beginning of a third horn.   details Lyell, D.D. 1912 Nyasaland for the hunter and settler. London, Horace Cox, pp. i-xi, 1-116 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino I shot one in N.E. Rhodesia [Zambia] with the beginning of a third horn.   details Schouteden, H. 1911 Le rhinoceros blanc. Revue Zoologique Africaine 1: 118-124, pl. 6, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Horns of different lengths. The museum has a head of this species donated by Mr. Brichart, in which the second horn is much longer than the anterior one, but that animal was killed in British East Africa. That head should belong to Rhinoceros bicornis Holmwoodi.   details Bland-Sutton, J. 1911 Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The horns of the rhinoceros, as its name specifies, grow on its nose : they contain no bony core, yet that portion of the nasal bone which underlies the horns of these huge and ugly beasts has a bony projection, but it does not enter into the composition of the horn, for this part of the rhinocer...   details Bland-Sutton, J. 1911 Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species There is one use the rhinoceros has for its horn, and that is probably peculiar to it. After dropping its dung the animal turns round and charges the heap with its horn and wrathfully tosses the dung about; sometimes ploughing up deep holes in the ground with the nose and horn during this weird ...   details Schouteden, H. 1911 Le rhinoceros blanc. Revue Zoologique Africaine 1: 118-124, pl. 6, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Horns of different lengths. The museum has a head of this species donated by Mr. Brichart, in which the second horn is much longer than the anterior one, but that animal was killed in British East Africa. That head should belong to Rhinoceros bicornis Holmwoodi.   details Bland-Sutton, J. 1911 Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Sir John Willoughby shot a rhinoceros in East Africa (1889) with three horns in a row, one behind the other. The skin with the horns on it was shown at a meeting of the Zoological Society, London.   details Kloss, C. Boden 1909 The primates, carnivores and ungulates of the Peninsular Region. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 53: 1-47 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species horns, composed of hardened skin.   details Shikar 1909 A record rhino [shot by T. Briscoe in Assam]. The Englishman (Calcutta) Tuesday 4 May 1909: 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino A Record Rhino – April 27 It will be of interest to those of your readers who are keen on shikar to learn that a rhino has lately been shot in Assam which carried a horn 24¼ inches [61.3 cm] in length, exceeding by over 4 inches the horn in the Ipswich Museum, which I believe, was previous ...   details Anonymous 1909 Record horn of Indian rhinoceros. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 1909 July 31: 922 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Sokolowsky, A. 1908 Hornwechsel bei einem jungen Afrikanische nashorn. Umschau 12: 392-394, 3 figures Location: Subject: Species: Europe - Western Europe - Germany Morphology - Horn Black Rhino No details available yet   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino At their bases the two horns are separated from one another by a considerable interval; and although in captive individuals they are generally much worn down, when fully developed they are slender for the greater part of their length, the front one curving backwards in an elegant sweep, and attai...   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino Yet another peculiarity of the Javan rhinoceros is to be found in the frequent, if not invariable, absence of the horn in the female. Male horns of between 10 and 11 inches in length are recorded.   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino Yet another peculiarity of the Javan rhinoceros is to be found in the frequent, if not invariable, absence of the horn in the female. Male horns of between 10 and 11 inches in length are recorded.   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino At their bases the two horns are separated from one another by a considerable interval; and although in captive individuals they are generally much worn down, when fully developed they are slender for the greater part of their length, the front one curving backwards in an elegant sweep, and attai...   details Lydekker, R. 1907 A one-horned white rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 110 (2870), 1907 December 28: 1119 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino Among a collection of, mostly anthropological, photographs, made in 1870 by M. Ernest H?ritte, and presented in 1905 by Colonel A.G. Anson to the Natural History Museum, is one of a freshly killed white rhinoceros, which is of interest from two points of view. In the original album the photograp...   details Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species No one is likely to confound a 'rhino' with a giraffe, and yet these are the only two groups of living land animals furnished with a horn situated in the middle line of the skull. The horn of a giraffe is, however, very unlike the horn (or horns) of a rhinoceros, being composed of a boss of bone...   details Sanborn, E.R. 1906 The new rhinoceros. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 22: 285-286, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - North America Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Diceros bicornis - New York Zoo, 2 yr old female. The anterior horn is already quite prominent and the posterior one just appearing.   details Sanborn, E.R. 1906 The new rhinoceros. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 22: 285-286, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - North America Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Diceros bicornis - New York Zoo, 2 yr old female. The anterior horn is already quite prominent and the posterior one just appearing.   details Heck, L.; Heinroth, O. 1906 Fuehrer durch den Berliner Zoologischen Garten. Berlin, Zoologischer Garten Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino The Indian Rhino lives in the park since 1872, and sheds his horn every 5-6 years.   details Tjeenk Willink, H.D. 1905 Mammalia voorkomende in Nederlandsch-Indie. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indi 65: 153-345 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino Horns are brown or black.   details Tjeenk Willink, H.D. 1905 Mammalia voorkomende in Nederlandsch-Indie. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indi 65: 153-345 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino Horns are brown or black.   details Broun, W.H. 1905 Heads of Rhinoceros bicornis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905 November 14: 297 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Morphology - Horn Black Rhino In Aug 1904 shot a female which carried two normal and two rudimentary horns. It was not seen till after death what an interesting animal she was. One of the rudimentary horns was between the ears and the other about 4 inches further back.   details Pigg, J.I. 1905 The hairs of mammals (incl rhinoceros horn). Country Life 17 April 29 1905: 608-609, 9 plates Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino 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...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species 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....   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species since these structures are but agglutinated hair   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species The white rhinoceros, like its congener, carries two horns, but an examination of a good series of museum specimens will speedily demonstrate that the front one is always flattened anteriorly in the white species, and rounded anteriorly in the black. Moreover, R. simus has always the anterior ho...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino The anterior horn of the white rhinoceros shows great individual differences of curvature: two well marked types may be recognised. The first type (mohohu) is the commoner: the horn is curved backwards. The second type (kabaoba) is directed forwards, so that the anterior surface is often m...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino The posterior horn is often little more than a mere dermal excrescence, and it was probably from this cause that the natives in Sir A. Smith's day informed him that a race of one-horned rhinoceroses inhabited South Africa.   details Otto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino The first horn was shining black.   details Sclater, P.L. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a rhinoceros from the White Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 3: 194-195, fig. 21 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Morphology - Horn White Rhino The front horn of R. simus may always be distinguished from the corresponding horn of R. bicornis by its broad, flattened surface at the base in front, the basal front of this horn in R. bicornis being more or less smooth and rounded and projecting in the centre.   details Otto, E. 1903 Pflanzer- und Jaegerleben auf Sumatra. Berlin, Wilhelm Suesserott, pp. 1-185 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino The first horn was shining black.   details British Museum (Natural History) 1902 Guide to the Galleries of Mammalia, 7th ed. London, British Museum (Natural History) Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The horns, the first of which is placed on the muzzle, differ essentially in structure from those of other Mammals, being composed of modified and agglutinated hairs.   details Ridley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino Singapore, Botanic Gardens. In both the front horn was very short, a mere conical process, and the only trace of the second horn was a small rough plate in the older one, and even that was absent in the second one.   details Heck, L. 1901 Fuehrer durch den Berliner Zoologischen Garten. Berlin, Zoologischer Garten Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino The Indian Rhino lives in the park since 1872, and sheds his horn every 5-6 years.   details Ridley, H.N. 1901 The Sumatran rhinoceros. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35: 105-106 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino Singapore, Botanic Gardens. In both the front horn was very short, a mere conical process, and the only trace of the second horn was a small rough plate in the older one, and even that was absent in the second one.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species horns composed of a solid mass of epidermic cells, somewhat resembling hairs, but growing from a cluster of free dermic papillae instead of, as in true hairs, from a sunken follicle ; the horns are not in any way attached to the underlying skull, nor does any bony matter take part in their compos...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Anterior horn rising from the nasal bones, rounded at the base, where it is often rough and frayed out, so to speak, above becoming laterally flattened and greatly curved backwards, usually exceeding the posterior horn in length; this latter is situated on the frontal bones just above the eye and...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino The anterior horn is situated on the nasal bones, it is usually longer and more slender than in the other species and curved gently backwards, the upper part of the front being usually partially flattened by friction aaainst the ground; the posterior horn is as a rule short, straight, conical and...   details Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino Female Rhinoceros sondaicus in Siamese Museum There was no horn.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino The anterior horn is situated on the nasal bones, it is usually longer and more slender than in the other species and curved gently backwards, the upper part of the front being usually partially flattened by friction aaainst the ground; the posterior horn is as a rule short, straight, conical and...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Anterior horn rising from the nasal bones, rounded at the base, where it is often rough and frayed out, so to speak, above becoming laterally flattened and greatly curved backwards, usually exceeding the posterior horn in length; this latter is situated on the frontal bones just above the eye and...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Occasionally, a curious triple-horned variety has been found, one such is described by Flower (op.c.) from near Mount Kilima-njaro in East Africa, in which the third horn forms an unsymmetrical triangular elevation about 5 ? inches high in the median line of the lower part of the forehead.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species horns composed of a solid mass of epidermic cells, somewhat resembling hairs, but growing from a cluster of free dermic papillae instead of, as in true hairs, from a sunken follicle ; the horns are not in any way attached to the underlying skull, nor does any bony matter take part in their compos...   details Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino Female Rhinoceros sondaicus in Siamese Museum There was no horn.   details Bolau, H. 1900 Das Ende des Indischen Nashorns im Hamburger Zoologischen Garten. Zoologische Garten A.F. 41 (11): 334-336 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino Hamburg Zoo, old male Rhinoceros unicornis . A bad habit of this animal had given it much hurt during its last years. He used to rub the horn on the nose against the walls and wooden planks, never at the fence around the enclosure. The horn never grew to any length. To reduce the effects of t...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Occasionally, a curious triple-horned variety has been found, one such is described by Flower (op.c.) from near Mount Kilima-njaro in East Africa, in which the third horn forms an unsymmetrical triangular elevation about 5 ? inches high in the median line of the lower part of the forehead.   details Harrison, E.G. 1897 A five-horned rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 90 (2348), 1897 December 25: 749 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Morphology - Horn Black Rhino No details available yet   details British Museum (Natural History) 1894 Guide to the Galleries of Mammalia, 5th ed. London, British Museum (Natural History) Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The horns, which are placed on their muzzles, differ essentially in structure from those of other mammals, being composed of modified and agglutinated hairs.   details Sclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino coll. Mus Calcutta. The large stuffed female 'a' in the list below shows no trace of a horn, whether this is a constant characteristic of the female of this species or not, it is impossible to state without further evidence; several people, however, who have seen this species alive, confirm this...   details Sclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino coll. Mus Calcutta. The large stuffed female 'a' in the list below shows no trace of a horn, whether this is a constant characteristic of the female of this species or not, it is impossible to state without further evidence; several people, however, who have seen this species alive, confirm this...   details Flower, W.H. 1889 Exhibition of the face of a male African rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1889 November 19: 448-449, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Morphology - Horn Black Rhino It is composed of the same fibrous structure as the normal horns, but of a coarser character, and showing a tendency to split up into columnar masses, as well as to fray off at the sides. Its surface also shows many irregular transverse linear depressions. The apex is broad, obtuse, and fissure...   details Flower, W.H. 1889 Exhibition of the face of a male African rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1889 November 19: 448-449, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Morphology - Horn Black Rhino Prof. Flower exhibited the skin of the face of a male African Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis), shot by Sir John C. Willoughby, Bart., on the eastern side of the base of Kilimanjaro mountain. In addition to the two normal horns, it presented a third, of irregular form, placed in the median line...   details Burg, C.L. van der 1885 De geneesheer in Nederlandsch-Indie, III. Matera Indica. Batavia, Ernst and Co, pp. i-xx, 1-856 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Morphology - Horn Asian Rhino Species The dried rhino horn has different sizes, according to the age of the animal, and it is either brown, black or grey-brown in colour.   details Pryer, W.B. 1881 Animal life in Borneo. Zoologist (3) 5 (58): 393-398 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino The natives declare a three-horned species exists, and I have seen a skull which I should not like to say was not a three-horned one, the third horn, however, being very small.   details Oldfield, H.A. 1880 Sketches from Nipal, historical and descriptive. London, W.H. Allen and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-ix, 1-418 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino The horns of rhinos of the eastern Terai and Chittagong are much the longer, finer in texture and better coloured, having little or no white in them, and, from being harder, take a finer polish.   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 - Horn Indian Rhino Both sexes a single horn, situated near the end of the snout, slightly curved and poitning backwards, from 15 to 20 inches in length. The Indian Rhinoceros, male and female, has a single horn, seldom growing to more than eighteen inches in length. The horn of the rhinoceros can be removed with ...   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 - Horn Indian Rhino Both sexes a single horn, situated near the end of the snout, slightly curved and poitning backwards, from 15 to 20 inches in length. The Indian Rhinoceros, male and female, has a single horn, seldom growing to more than eighteen inches in length. The horn of the rhinoceros can be removed with ...   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: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino Mr W. Jamrach had just imported a young living specimen of the Rhinoceros of the Bengal Sunderbans, which was either Rhinoceros sondaicus or a very closely allied form. Mr Sclater had lately examined this animal, a female, measured 3 feet in height. At this time of life there certainly was no a...   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: World Morphology - Horn Javan Rhino Mr W. Jamrach had just imported a young living specimen of the Rhinoceros of the Bengal Sunderbans, which was either Rhinoceros sondaicus or a very closely allied form. Mr Sclater had lately examined this animal, a female, measured 3 feet in height. At this time of life there certainly was no a...   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. 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 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 - 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. 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 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 back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3