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| The Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is similar to the animal on the mainland of India. It is distinguished in the following ways: The head is smaller in comparison to the rest of the body, less powerful, lower and less dented on the top. The folds in the neck are more numerous and prono... |
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| Schouteden, H. 1911 Le rhinoceros blanc. Revue Zoologique Africaine 1: 118-124, pl. 6, fig. 1 |
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| These are the main differences between the white and black rhinoceros.
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| Gilchrist, J.D.F. 1911 South African zoology: a text book for the use of students, trackers and others in South Africa. Cape Town and Pretoria, T. Mashew Miller, pp. i-xi, 1-323 |
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| The black rhino may be distinguished from the white rhino by its much smaller size and its possession of a proboscis-like upper lip. |
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| These are the main differences between the white and black rhinoceros.
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1. The muzzle is truncated, squarely cut in the white rhino, and the upper lip does not extend in the middle. In the black rhino, the muzzle is more advanced to the front and the upper lip i... |
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| Gilchrist, J.D.F. 1911 South African zoology: a text book for the use of students, trackers and others in South Africa. Cape Town and Pretoria, T. Mashew Miller, pp. i-xi, 1-323 |
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| The black rhino may be distinguished from the white rhino by its much smaller size and its possession of a proboscis-like upper lip. |
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| Lydekker, R. 1908 The white rhinoceros [description of Rhinoceros simus cottoni]. Field 111 (2878), 1908 February 22: 319 |
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| Major Powell-Cotton has just presented to the Natural History Museum the skull and horns of a male white rhinoceros killed by him in the Lado District of Equatorial Central Africa. The skull indicates an immature animal, the last upper molar tooth on each side not having yet come into use, while... |
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| Lydekker, R. 1908 The white rhinoceros [description of Rhinoceros simus cottoni]. Field 111 (2878), 1908 February 22: 319 |
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| Major Powell-Cotton has just presented to the Natural History Museum the skull and horns of a male white rhinoceros killed by him in the Lado District of Equatorial Central Africa. The skull indicates an immature animal, the last upper molar tooth on each side not having yet come into use, while... |
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| Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 |
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| The white rhinoceros is a larger animal than the black species, from which it may at once be differentiated by the square, rubber-like and non-prehensile upper lip. Other distinguishing characters of Rhinoceros simus are the slit-like nostrils, the characteristic position of the eye behind the l... |
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| The white rhinoceros is a larger animal than the black species, from which it may at once be differentiated by the square, rubber-like and non-prehensile upper lip. Other distinguishing characters of Rhinoceros simus are the slit-like nostrils, the characteristic position of the eye behind the l... |
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| Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 |
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| [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] A most striking feature of this individual, and one which I have not seen exemplified in three adult heads of this species from Burmah which I. have examined, nor have seen referred to in any description of the species, is the long drooping hai... |
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