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File AvailableBaldwin, 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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Indian Rhino
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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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1877 Remarks upon a two-horned rhinoceros killed in 1876 near Comillah in Tipperah, and on a living specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus from the Sunderbans. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877 March 20: 269-270
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Javan Rhino
Mr W. Jamrach had just imported a young living specimen of the Rhinoceros of the Bengal Sunderbans, which was either Rhinoceros sondaicus or a very closely allied form. Mr Sclater had lately examined this animal, a female, measured 3 feet in height. At this time of life there certainly was no a...
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1877 Remarks upon a two-horned rhinoceros killed in 1876 near Comillah in Tipperah, and on a living specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus from the Sunderbans. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877 March 20: 269-270
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Javan Rhino
Mr W. Jamrach had just imported a young living specimen of the Rhinoceros of the Bengal Sunderbans, which was either Rhinoceros sondaicus or a very closely allied form. Mr Sclater had lately examined this animal, a female, measured 3 feet in height. At this time of life there certainly was no a...
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File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1877 Reise in Nordost-Afrika: Schilderungen aus dem Gebiete der Beni Amer und Habat, nebst zoologische Skizzen und einem Fuhrer fur Jagdreisenden. Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, vol. 2, pp. i-vii, 1-304
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African Rhino Species
From the rhinoceros which occurs in Takah, Homran, Qalabat and on the Anseba I only obtained young specimens, which are similar to the one described by Blanford, and I often saw apparently adult animals, in which the front horn was only 6 inches longer than the second one. The anterior horn has ...
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1876 Exhibition and remarks upon a skin of a young rhinoceros from the Sunderbunds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876 November 7: 751
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Javan Rhino
Mr Sclater exhibited the skin of a young rhinoceros belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, female, captured in the Sunderbunds. According to Mr. Jamrach's information, the females of the species obtained in the Sunderbunds were entirely destitute of any horn, which would appear not to be the case in the J...
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1876 Exhibition and remarks upon a skin of a young rhinoceros from the Sunderbunds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876 November 7: 751
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Javan Rhino
Mr Sclater exhibited the skin of a young rhinoceros belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, female, captured in the Sunderbunds. According to Mr. Jamrach's information, the females of the species obtained in the Sunderbunds were entirely destitute of any horn, which would appear not to be the case in the J...
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952
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Captive - Europe
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Javan Rhino
London Zoo. The horn is little more than an apology, short and amorphous, as though the poor beast had been long in durance vile, and had worn away this instrument in its efforts to escape.
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952
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Captive - Europe
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Javan Rhino
London Zoo. The horn is little more than an apology, short and amorphous, as though the poor beast had been long in durance vile, and had worn away this instrument in its efforts to escape.
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060
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Sumatran Rhino
it differs from R. unicornis in having two horns, one of which, the smallest, seems exactly intermediate between the eyes, and the other, the larger one, occupies the same site on the nose as the single horn of Unicornis.
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060
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Sumatran Rhino
it differs from R. unicornis in having two horns, one of which, the smallest, seems exactly intermediate between the eyes, and the other, the larger one, occupies the same site on the nose as the single horn of Unicornis.
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