 | Harrison, E.G. 1897 A five-horned rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 90 (2348), 1897 December 25: 749 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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Black Rhino
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| British Museum (Natural History) 1894 Guide to the Galleries of Mammalia, 5th ed. London, British Museum (Natural History) |
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All Rhino Species
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| The horns, which are placed on their muzzles, differ essentially in structure from those of other mammals, being composed of modified and agglutinated hairs. |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375 |
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Javan Rhino
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| 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... |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375 |
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
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Black Rhino
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
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| 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... |
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| Burg, C.L. van der 1885 De geneesheer in Nederlandsch-Indie, III. Matera Indica. Batavia, Ernst and Co, pp. i-xx, 1-856 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
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Asian Rhino Species
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| 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. |
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| Pryer, W.B. 1881 Animal life in Borneo. Zoologist (3) 5 (58): 393-398 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
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| 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. |
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| Oldfield, H.A. 1880 Sketches from Nipal, historical and descriptive. London, W.H. Allen and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-ix, 1-418 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Indian Rhino
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 ... |
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