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File AvailableSanyal, R.B. 1905 Report of the Honorary Committee for the Management of the Zoological Garden, for the year 1904-05. Calcutta, Bengal Secretariat Depot, pp. 1, 1-23
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Indian Rhino
diet of Indian rhinoceros in garden.
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File AvailableKnottnerus-Meyer, T. 1905 Neues vom Zoologischen Garten zu Berlin. Zoologische Garten A.F. 46 (4): 109-115
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Indian Rhino
An Indian rhino in the garden since 1872.
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File AvailableKnottnerus-Meyer, T. 1905 Neues vom Zoologischen Garten zu Berlin. Zoologische Garten A.F. 46 (4): 109-115
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Black Rhino
Again there is an African rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis). It was brought from German East Africa by Schillings together with two goats and donated to the zoo. It has developed very well.
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File AvailableWray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65
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Sumatran Rhino
In 1901, three were caught in the Dindings, Malaysia. One was shot and taken to Perak Museum, one died from old wound, and the third was shipped to Singapore.
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File AvailableScherren, H. 1905 The Zoological Society of London - a sketch of its foundation and development, and the story of its Farm, Museum, Gardens, Menagerie and Library. London, Cassell and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-252
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Sumatran Rhino
Two rhinoceroses were purchased in 1872, both at first believed to be the Sumatran form. One, for which Jamrach was paid ? 1250 was obtained in Chittagong in 1868.
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File AvailableRenshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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Black Rhino
The black R. bicornis brought into Cassala (purchased in 1868 by the Zoological Society of London) did not die till 1891, when it succumbed to cancer and not to old age. The forward inclination of the anterior horn is not however confined to the white rhinoceros. The example of the black specie...
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File AvailableRenshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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White Rhino
1891. Messrs. Eyre and Coryndon, in August, 1892, saw a bull, cow and calf all together: the next day they met a large cow, a half-grown individual, and a calf. The calf died in captivity after a few days.
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File AvailableRenshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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White Rhino
In captivity the white rhinoceros has proved a most disappointin animal, dying even when taken quite young from no obvious cause. None of the calves which have been captured from time to time have survived long enough to be taken down country, to say nothing of being brought to Europe, so that t...
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File AvailableRenshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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Black Rhino
The forward inclination of the anterior horn is not however confined to the white rhinoceros. The example of the black species in the Berlin Zoological Gardens has the front horn pointing forwards an angle of 45 degrees.
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File AvailablePeel, C.V.A. 1903 The zoological gardens of Europe: their history and chief features. London, F.E. Robinson, pp. i-xiv, 1-256
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Indian Rhino
In 1794 the large and valuable collection of the Palais de Versailles was offered to the Jardin des Plantes, and accepted on its behalf by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. This collection contained 5 specimens which had never been seen in Paris before - namely, a quagga, now unhappily extinct, a harte...
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