Reference Base Notes for: Morphology - Size back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (8)  ... 3 4 5 6 7 ...   Franck, P.F. 1934 Rhinoceros sondaicus in West-Java. Tropische Natuur 23: 76-79 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Lydekker in Brehm states that R. sondaicus, if not smaller, certainly is lighter built than R. unicornis. It seems that very old examples of R. sondaicus are not much smaller than unicornis, although it is known from other large mammals like elephant, banteng and tiger that those from the Indian...   details Franck, P.F. 1934 Rhinoceros sondaicus in West-Java. Tropische Natuur 23: 76-79 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Old male shot at Tasikmalaja, Java in 1934 Ear length 200 mm   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 - Size Indian Rhino A fully developed calf taken from the uterus measured 4 ft. 1 in. and scaled 120 lbs.   details Franck, P.F. 1934 Rhinoceros sondaicus in West-Java. Tropische Natuur 23: 76-79 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Old male shot at Tasikmalaja, Java in 1934. Tracks in the field were 28 x 29 cm.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Average length about 10 feet (average of 3 shot in Burma), Largest 10 feet 2 inches.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Length from nose to tip of tail 9 feet 5 inches   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino The weight is in the neighbourhood of 2000 pounds.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Burma. The horns of males are said to be about 10 inches in length. The male has only one horn. The female may have a very small horn or none at all..   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Burma. The tracks of an adult Javan rhinoceros are about 8 ? to 9 inches in diameter. This is only an inch or two greater than the tracks of an adult Sumatran rhinoceros. The toes of the latter are less splayed out than the former, but the tracks appear almost identical except in size.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1933 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 6: 51-74, figs. 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Morphology - Size Black Rhino Namibia. Front horn in males 50-54 cm Rear horn in males 40-45 cm Basal circumference of horns in males 20-23 cm Front horn in females 50 cm Rear horn in females 45-50 cm   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino The front horns of males average 7 or 8 inches and those of females about 3 inches. I have never seen a horn, in Burma, over 10 inches in length. There are two specimens in the British Museum of Natural History, however, in which the front horns measure 32 ? inches and 27 inches. Such horns w...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Burma. The height of a mature specimen of the javan rhinoceros is probably about 5 feet 6 inches, or roughly a foot higher than the Sumatran rhinoceros.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1933 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 6: 51-74, figs. 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Morphology - Size Black Rhino Height at shoulders 155-170 cm, Namibia   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino The posterior horns of males average about 3 inches and those of females are mere knobs.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1933 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 6: 51-74, figs. 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Morphology - Size Black Rhino Length of tail 65-70 cm (Namibia)   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Average height 4 feet 3 inches (average of 3 specimens shot in Burma). Largest 4 feet 8 inches high.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Tail only 1 foot 9 inches   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1933 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 6: 51-74, figs. 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Morphology - Size Black Rhino Length of body 320-350 cm (Namibia)   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 - Size Javan Rhino When full grown, the lesser one-horned species stands nearly as high at the shoulder as the larger, but its bulk is much less. One in the Liverpool Gardens about 1836 is said to have measured 4 feet, 8 inches at the highest part of the back; another, a large female, according to Cockburn (Proc. ...   details Hazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Sumatra. Getting this really very big male specimen of the one-horned Rhinoceros Sondaicus Desm (or javanensis Cuv), one of the biggest of its species. Its length, without tail, was 3, 15 m; its height 1,38 m.   details Keller, E. 1932 De neushoorn in Borneo. Tropische Natuur 21 (12): 229 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Witkamp remarked that the rhinoceros does not occur south of the Mahakam River. While surveying the area between Balikpapan and Samarinda, I did not only see many old and new tracks of the rhinoceros, I even saw an individual. The footprints had a diameter of over 20 cm.   details Barnard, B.F.H. 1932 The one-horned rhinoceros. Malayan Forester 1: 183-185 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Length of horn 7 ? inch, Malaysia   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size White Rhino The White Rhino is only exceeded in bulk by the Elephant, and a fully adult bull standing 5 feet to 5 feet 6 inches would weigh well over a ton.   details Barnard, B.F.H. 1932 The one-horned rhinoceros. Malayan Forester 1: 183-185 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Length of body ca. 11 ft, Malaysia   details Barnard, B.F.H. 1932 The one-horned rhinoceros. Malayan Forester 1: 183-185 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Height at shoulder ca. 5 ft, Malaysia   details Hazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Sumatra. Getting this really very big male specimen of the one-horned Rhinoceros Sondaicus Desm (or javanensis Cuv), one of the biggest of its species. Its length, without tail, was 3, 15 m; its height 1,38 m.   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Black Rhino A good average horn will be about 20 inches on the front curve in South Central Africa, and one of 28 inches would, nowadays, be quite good in Kenya.   details Lyell, D.D. 1932 The game of Northern Rhodesia: pp. 330-334 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Morphology - Size Black Rhino Zambia. The best frontal horn I have heard of measured 30 ? inches and one much over 20 inches is a good specimen.   details Ritchie, A.T.A. 1932 Kenya: pp. 250-258 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Morphology - Size Black Rhino Kenya. I know of a 42-inch, a 38-inch, and a 37-inch, all three obtained in those forests not so very long ago, while a 20-inch horn is no bad trophy from a low-country beast.   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size White Rhino The White Rhino is only exceeded in bulk by the Elephant, and a fully adult bull standing 5 feet to 5 feet 6 inches would weigh well over a ton.   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Black Rhino A full-grown male stands upwards of five feet at the shoulder and weighs over a ton.   details Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1932 Black rhinoceros hunting: pp. 115-119 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Morphology - Size White Rhino Specimen shot in Lado enclave, Sudan. The square-based horn was unusually massive, and measured 28 1/4 inches in length.   details Hazewinkel, J.C. 1932 A rhino-hunt in Sumatra. Java Gazette 1 (5) Suppl: i-viii, figs. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Sumatra. Getting this really very big male specimen of the one-horned Rhinoceros Sondaicus Desm (or javanensis Cuv), one of the biggest of its species. Its length, without tail, was 3, 15 m; its height 1,38 m. The length of the horn, measured along the slightly curved foreside, 37 cm., with an ...   details Knollys, A.C.; Lyell, D.D. 1932 Rhinoceros: pp. 113-115 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Black Rhino A full-grown male stands upwards of five feet at the shoulder and weighs over a ton.   details Peacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Burma, animal shot for BMNH, 1930. Length from nose to tip of tail 9 feet 5 inches   details Peacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Male shot in Burma in 1930 for BMNH. much rubbed and worn horns of which the front horn is 7 inches in length along the curve from base to tip.   details Peacock, E.H. 1931 The Schwe-u-Daung Game Sanctuary, upper Burma, with a note on the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros (R sumatrensis). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35 (2): 446-448, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Animal shot in Burma for BMNH in 1930. Height 4 ft 5 inches (male)   details Schneider, K.M. 1930 Bemerkungen uber die von Christoph Schulz 1929 eingefuhrten ostafrikanischen Tiere. Zoologische Garten 3: 19-28, figs. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Leipzig Zoo - 1 yr old female. The front horn was 5.8 cm in a straight line; at the basis it was 14 cm in circumference and 11 ? cm above. The posterior horn was only a hump of 1 ? cm. The area from which it would grow measured 9 ? wide and 8 ? cm long. On 26 August 1929, The front horn was 6...   details Schneider, K.M. 1930 Bemerkungen uber die von Christoph Schulz 1929 eingefuhrten ostafrikanischen Tiere. Zoologische Garten 3: 19-28, figs. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Leipzig Zoo - 1 yr old female. The tail was 42 cm; On 26 August 1929, tail length 42 cm   details Schneider, K.M. 1930 Bemerkungen uber die von Christoph Schulz 1929 eingefuhrten ostafrikanischen Tiere. Zoologische Garten 3: 19-28, figs. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Leipzig Zoo - 1 yr old female. The circumference of the breast was measured by Mr Schulz on 5 June 1929 as 126 cm, and on 29 August 1929 it was 140 cm.   details Schneider, K.M. 1930 Bemerkungen uber die von Christoph Schulz 1929 eingefuhrten ostafrikanischen Tiere. Zoologische Garten 3: 19-28, figs. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Leipzig Zoo, 1 year old female. The total length taken with a string, from the upper lip to the root of the tail was 157 cm, from the backside of the fronthorn to the root of the tail 143 cm. On 26 August 1929, the total length was 172 cm, from the backside of the front horn to the tail 154 cm.   details Sayers, G.F. 1930 The handbook of Tanganyika. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-x, 1-636 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Morphology - Size Black Rhino Tanzania. A 12 inch horn is common, 18 inch is good. A horn obtained near Arusha was over 40 inch.   details Schneider, K.M. 1930 Bemerkungen uber die von Christoph Schulz 1929 eingefuhrten ostafrikanischen Tiere. Zoologische Garten 3: 19-28, figs. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Black Rhino When I asked Mr Schulz, he said that he never saw a rhinoceros without a horn in the wild. (About changing of horn in the Indian rhinoceros in captivity, see Wunderlich, 1892. In Schillings, Mit Blitzlicht und B?chse, p. 161 there is a female rhinoceros which lost its front horn, see also p. 175).   details Schneider, K.M. 1930 Bemerkungen uber die von Christoph Schulz 1929 eingefuhrten ostafrikanischen Tiere. Zoologische Garten 3: 19-28, figs. 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Leipzig Zoo - 1 yr old female. Height at the shoulder measured with a stick, 84 cm. On 26 August 1929, shoulderheight 87 cm.   details Beaufort, L.F. de 1928 On the occurrence of Rhinoceros sondaicus Desm. in Sumatra. Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging (3) 1 (2): 43-44 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Specimen from Sumatra. Now Mr. Ruhe presented to the zoological museum of Amsterdam the complete skeleton of a female Rhinoceros sondaicus, shot by Mr. Kreth 250 km southwest of Palembang, Sumatra. I cannot see any differences with Javanese specimens. The incisors of the lower jaw are not large...   details Uganda Game Department 1928 Uganda protectorate Extracts from the Annual report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1926. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 8: 83-87 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Morphology - Size White Rhino Horn found in West Nile, measured 42 ? inches.   details Ali, S.A. 1927 The breeding of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (4): 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino 2 ft 9 inch, Fully developed foetus in Nepal   details Ali, S.A. 1927 The breeding of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (4): 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Height at birth 1 ft 11 in, Calcutta 1925   details Ali, S.A. 1927 The breeding of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (4): 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Length at birth 3 ft 4 in, Kathmandu 1826   details Ali, S.A. 1927 The breeding of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (4): 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Length at birth 3 ft 2 in, Calcutta 1925 - without tail   details Ali, S.A. 1927 The breeding of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (4): 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Weight at birth 120 lbs, Full grown foetus in Nepal   details Kloss, C. Boden 1927 The one-horned rhinoceros in the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 13 (4): 207-208, pl. 5 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size Javan Rhino Pinjih Rhinoceros, in Selangor Museum, male, height at the shoulder, measured after death, was 5 ft 5 ? inch.   details Ali, S.A. 1927 The breeding of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (4): 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Length at birth 3 ft 4 in, Full grown foetus in Nepal   details Ali, S.A. 1927 The breeding of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (4): 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Weight at birth 74 lbs, Calcutta 1925   details Ali, S.A. 1927 The breeding of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (4): 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Height at birth 2 ft, Kathmandu, cf. Hodgson   details Haywood, C.W. 1927 To the mysterious Lorian swamp: an adventure & arduous journey of exploration through the vast waterless tracts of unknown Jubaland. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-275 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Morphology - Size Black Rhino Rhino were, and probably still are, very numerous round Meru, and they mostly had very big horns. I went after one and was able to drop it without much difficulty. Its front horn was thirty-four inches and the back one about twenty-two; so I was very pleased, as this is the best I have shot.   details Ali, S.A. 1927 The breeding of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (4): 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Tail length at birth 9 inch, Fully developed foetus in Nepal.   details Ali, S.A. 1927 The breeding of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (4): 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Tail length at birth 9 ? inch, Calcutta 1925   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino 12 ft greatest girth - female shot by O'Connor, Nepal   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Circumference 11 ft 1 in behind shoulder; maximum girth 12 ft 6 inches - unusually big rhino measured by Shumshere Jung, Nepal   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Height at shoulder 6 ft 4 in. - unusually big rhino measured by Shumshere Jung, Nepal   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Record horn is 24 inches recorded by Mr Briscoe in Assam   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Length of body 10 ft 7 inches - unusually big rhino measured by Shumshere Jung, Nepal   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Height about 6 feet - Prince of Wales Hunts in Nepal   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Height at shoulder 5 ft 9 inch at withers, female shot by O'Connor, Nepal   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino 2 ft 1 inch - unusually big rhino measured by Shumshere Jung, Nepal   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Neck 7 ft 6 inch - unusually big rhino measured by Shumshere Jung, Nepal   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Length of horn 15 ? inch - unusually big rhino measured by Shumshere Jung, Nepal   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Length of horn 21 ? inches, circumference 24 3/4 inch at base - animal shot by Curzon in 1901 at Morang, Nepal   details Ellison, B.C. 1925 HRH The Prince of Wales's sport in India. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xxx, 1-285 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Length of body 9 ft 10 inches - Prince of Wales Hunts in Nepal   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino He was a big and very old male, whose horn had been splintered and worn down to about 8 inches by digging or fighting. I saw the rhino still in the water and managed to get up near him just as he was leaving the pool. This proved to be a fine male with a horn rneasuring 12 ? inches. He had ev...   details Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino The great Indian one-horned rhinoceros is, of course, the biggest rhinoceros in the world. His horn is smaller than are those of the African rhinoceroses, either the black or the white, but in height and bulk he far exceeds the African species. The males we shot measured well over seventeen han...   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Morphology - Size Black Rhino However, in the Hukwefeld, the rhino is the same size as the East African Opsiceros species, therefore larger than O. occidentalis, a height at the shoulders of about 1.60 m and a body length of 3.50 m.   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Morphology - Size Black Rhino J.H. Wilhelm formerly owned an anterior horn of a large male with a length of 25 cm and a diameter of 9 cm at the root.   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Morphology - Size Black Rhino However, in the Hukwefeld, the rhino is the same size as the East African Opsiceros species, therefore larger than O. occidentalis, a height at the shoulders of about 1.60 m and a body length of 3.50 m.   details Beaux, O. de 1923 Mammiferi delle Somalia Italiano. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civile di Storia Naturale, Milano 62: 247-316 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Morphology - Size Black Rhino Somalia, specimens in mus. Milan Subad. Male juvenile female Length of the superior surface - 350 mm Width at the orbital bones 230 mm 143 mm Zygomatic breath 315 mm 223 mm Postorbital constriction 109 mm 90 mm End   details Beaux, O. de 1923 Mammiferi delle Somalia Italiano. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civile di Storia Naturale, Milano 62: 247-316 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia Morphology - Size Black Rhino specimens from Somalia. subadult male, front horn 204 mm, rear horn 100 mm. Juvenile female, front horn 101 mm, rear horn ca. 30 mm.   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino A fully developed calf in utero taken from an animal shot during the Prince's shikar in Nepal measured as follows: Girth, 2 ft 9 inches   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino A female shot by Col. O'Connor during the Xmas camp, after the Prince had left Nepal, taped 5 ft 9 inches in height at withers, greatest girth 12 ft.   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Information by General Kaiser. Measurement of a rhino which appeared to him as ?unusually' big.- Girth behind shoulder, 11feet 1 inch Maximum girth, 12 feet 6 inch   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Nepal - information by General Kaiser. Measurement of a rhino which appeared to him as ?unusually' big.- Length from nose to root of tail, 10 feet 7 inch (measured between pegs)   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino The longest rhino horn obtained in Nepal, was one of an animal shot by Lord Curzon, then Viceroy in 1901, at Morang. The horn measured 21 ? inches with a circumference of 24 3/4 inches at the base. The record horn measures 24' and was got by Mr. Briscoe in Assam.   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino A fully developed calf in utero taken from an animal shot during the Prince's shikar in Nepal measured as follows: Length between pegs, 4 ft 1 inch Head and body, 3 ft 4 inches   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Nepal - information by General Kaiser. Measurement of a rhino which appeared to him as ?unusually' big.- Horn, 15 ? inch   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino A female shot by Col. O'Connor during the Xmas camp, after the Prince had left Nepal, taped 5 ft 9 inches in height at withers, greatest girth 12 ft.   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Nepal - information by General Kaiser. Measurement of a rhino which appeared to him as ?unusually' big.- Height at shoulder, 6 feet 4 inch   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Information by General Kaiser. Measurement of a rhino which appeared to him as ?unusually' big.- Neck 7 feet 6 inch   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Nepal - information by General Kaiser. Measurement of a rhino which appeared to him as ?unusually' big.- Tail 2 feet 1 inch   details Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Morphology - Size Indian Rhino A fully developed calf in utero taken from an animal shot during the Prince's shikar in Nepal measured as follows: Weight 120 lbs   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: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London, 19. 7.15. 516. Horns. Southern Rhodesia Length of front horn on outside curve 21 inch circumference at base 17 ? inch length of rear horn on side 8 3/4 inch circumference at base 17 inch   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: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London, 19.7.15. 518. Horn. Southern Rhodesia. Length on front curve 30 3/4 inch circumference at base 16 inch   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: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London, 19.7.15.519. 1912 (sex not recorded). Northern Guaso Nyiro, Kenya Colony. Length of front horn on outside curve 24 ? inch circumference at base 17 inch length of rear horn on side 22 ? inch circumference at base 17 1/4 inch   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: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London, 19. 7.15.520 (sex not recorded). Horns. Northern Guaso Nyiro, Kenya Colony. Length of front horn on outside curve 21 inch circumference at base 16 inch length of rear horn on side 14 inch circumference at base 16 3/4 inch   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: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London, 19.7.15.515 (female). Horns. Southern Rhodesia. Length of front horn on outside curve 22 ? inch circumference at base 17 ? inch length of rear horn on side 12 inch circumference at base 18 inch   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: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London, 19. 7. 15. 517 (female). Horns. Southern Rhodesia. Length of front horn on outside curve 28 inch circumference at base 18 inch length of rear horn on side 8 3/4 inch circumference at base 18 ?. inch   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: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History, London. 19.7.15.511. Skull and horns. Southern Rhodesia. Length of front horn on outside curve 21 3/4 inch circumference at base 19 3/4 inch length of rear horn on side 12 inch circumference at base 19 inch   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: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London. 19. 7.15.512 (female). Horns. Southern Rhodesia. Length of front horn on outside curve 15 ? inch circumference at base 18 inch length of rear horn on side 17 3/4 inch circumference at base 19 inch   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: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London, 19. 7. 15.513 (female). Horns. Southern Rhodesia. Length of front horn on outside curve 20 inch circumference at base 18 ? inch length of rear horn on side 15 3/4 inch circumference at base 16 ?. inch   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: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London, 19. 7.15.514. Horns. Chobe River, Botswana. Length of front horn on outside curve 24 inch circumference at base 19 inch length of rear horn on side 16 3/4 inch circumference at base 22 inch   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 - Size White Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London 19.7.15.521(female). Horns. Thamma Setsi, Zimbabwe Length of front horn on outside curve 33 inch circumference at base 23 1/4 inch length of rear horn on side 13 ? inch circumference at base 20 inch   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (8)  ... 3 4 5 6 7 ...