Reference Base Notes for: Morphology - Horn back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3  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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Blyth, E. 1862 On Rhinoceros crossii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 9: 243 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino Sexual difference. The mature female horns are small, and the nasal bones comparatively narrow; I am not aware that a corresponding sexual difference occurs in any other Rhinoceros. In the Indian one-horned species the sexes are alike in size and development of horn.   details Blyth, E. 1862 On Rhinoceros crossii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 9: 243 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino Sexual difference. The mature female horns are small, and the nasal bones comparatively narrow; I am not aware that a corresponding sexual difference occurs in any other Rhinoceros. In the Indian one-horned species the sexes are alike in size and development of horn.   details Gens, E. 1861 Promenade au Jardin Zoologique d'Anvers. Antwerpen, J.E. Buschmann, pp. 1-188 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species The horn is composed of a fibrous and horny substance, similar to agglutinated hairs. LE RHINOCÉROS est, après l'Eléphant, le plus grand des Pachidermes. Ce qui le distingue, c'est l'extrême épaisseur et la dureté de sa peau sur laquelle les balles font ricoch...   details Heuglin, T. von 1861 Forschungen uber die Fauna des Rothen Meeres und der Somali-Kuste: ein systematisches Verzeichniss der Saugethiere und Vogel, welche in diesen Regionen bisher beobachtet worden sind. Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt 1861: 11-32 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species According to Lef?bvre, there would be rhinoceros species with three, four or more horns in Abyssinia, and the horn would be moveable.   details Heuglin, T. von 1861 Forschungen uber die Fauna des Rothen Meeres und der Somali-Kuste: ein systematisches Verzeichniss der Saugethiere und Vogel, welche in diesen Regionen bisher beobachtet worden sind. Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt 1861: 11-32 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species According to Lef?bvre, there would be rhinoceros species with three, four or more horns in Abyssinia, and the horn would be moveable.   details Kneeland, S. 1854 On the horn of the rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 4: 175 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species If we examine the structure of the horn of the Rhinoceros, we find that it is essentially made p of a collection of hairs, that is, a mass of long corneous cylinders, nearly parallel to each other. If then, we define a hair as a corneous cylinder of variable length, we may regard nails, claws, h...   details Gray, J.E. 1854 On a new species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1854 November 28: 250-251, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino The late Mr. Cross, of Exeter Change and the Surrey Zoological Gardens, much prized a specimen of the horn of a Rhinoceros, which for many years formed part of his collection, and which he considered as indicating the existence of a hitherto unrecorded species of that genus. At the distribution ...   details Gray, J.E. 1854 On a new species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1854 November 28: 250-251, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino Horn black; trunk very slender, tapering, smooth, rather compressed at the end, curved nearly into a semicircle; base rather thick, subquadrangular, rugose.   details Saenz Diez, M. 1854 Untersuchung des hornartigen Auswuchses auf der Nase des Rhinoceros. Justus Liebig Annalen der Chemie 90 (3): 303-304 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Parkyns, M. 1853 Life in Abyssinia, being notes collected during three years residence and travel in that country. London, John Murray, vol. 2, pp. 1-355 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species The handles of the swords and the scabbards are made of the horn of the rhinoceros. They are cut out of the horn at a great loss of material, and hence they fetch a good price. It should be remembered that the heart of the horn is black, outside of which is coating, not quite an inch thick, of ...   details Gray, J.E. 1853 Notice of a presumed new species of rhinoceros, from South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1853 (March 8): 46-47, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino Colonel Thomas Steele having most kindly presented to the British Museum a pair of horns of a two-horned Rhinoceros, which was discovered in the interior of South Africa by his friend Mr. Oswell The front horn is elongated and thick; but instead of being bent back, as is the general character of...   details Murs, O. des; Prevost, F.; Guichenot; Guerin-Menneville 1850 Histoire naturelle, Zoologie: vol. 6, pp. i, 1-396 In: Lefebvre, T. et al. Voyage en Abyssinie execute pendant les annees 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843 par une commission scientifique. Paris, Arthus Bertrand Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Morphology - Horn African Rhino Species There are several species of rhinoceros in Abyssinia. There are those with 2, 3 or 4 horns, that is certian, but it is not so sure that there are some with 5 or 6 horns as people say.   details Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Morphology - Horn Asian Rhino Species The natives assert that a third horn is sometimes met with and in one of the young specimens procured an indication of the kind was observed.   details Thunberg, C.P. 1810 Museum Naturalium Academiae Upsaliensis, XXVIII (Ericus Hasselhun 18 April 1810): Donation Reg Gustavi IV Adolphi. Upsaliae, Edmannianis, pp. 1-8 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species Donation to King Gustaf IV Adolphi, Sweden. Rhinoceros horn; one with three points.   details Daniell, W. 1807 Interesting selections from animated nature, with illustrative scenery, designed and engraved by William Daniell. London, T.Cadell and W. Davies, vol. 2, pls. 1-63 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Morphology - Horn Black Rhino The rhinoceros is the only animal that carries a horn upon the nose, and a singularity attends its attachment which is deserving of notice. The Asiatic species has but one, the African boasts of two; both are alike fixed to the integuments, and not to the bone of the nose; so that when the anima...   details Thomas, H.L. 1801 An anatomical description of a male rhinoceros. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 91 (1): 145-152, pl. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino Pidcock Menagerie. The horn, which is affixed to the upper lip of the adult rhinoceros, was here just beginning to sprout.   details Thomas, H.L. 1801 An anatomical description of a male rhinoceros. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 91 (1): 145-152, pl. 10 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino Pidcock Menagerie. The horn, which is affixed to the upper lip of the adult rhinoceros, was here just beginning to sprout.   details Anonymous 1759 Erlauterung einiger Merkwurdigkeiten des Nasenhorns. Neue Gesellschaftliche Erzahlungen fur die Liebhaber der Naturlehre 2: 41-48 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn All Rhino Species No details available yet   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3