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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1868 Rhinoceros shedding their horns. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1: 70
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A rhinoceros in the menagerie at Moscow had shed its horn. This is not unusual. In Tenasserim he had seen old rhinoceroses with very small horns, and it occurred to him as not impossible that those might have shed their old horn, and that the horns they bore were young ones just grown.
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File AvailableLubach, D. 1868 Bijkomende hoorn bij rhinocerossen. Album der Natuur 1868 bijblad: 88
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Blyth mentions that there may be a tendency in all rhinoceros species to develop an additional horn. This extra horn, situated behind the usual one, always remains small. An example was the large female R. indicus in London Zoo. Raffles mentions a third horn sometimes found in R. sumatranus, a...
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1868 Rhinoceros horns. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1: 130-131
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Indian Rhino
A female Indian rhino in the London Zoo shows a rudimentary or small horn on the forehead. Earlier one similar to this had broken off.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1862 On Rhinoceros crossii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 9: 243
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Sumatran Rhino
Sexual difference. The mature female horns are small, and the nasal bones comparatively narrow; I am not aware that a corresponding sexual difference occurs in any other Rhinoceros. In the Indian one-horned species the sexes are alike in size and development of horn.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1862 On Rhinoceros crossii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 9: 243
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Sexual difference. The mature female horns are small, and the nasal bones comparatively narrow; I am not aware that a corresponding sexual difference occurs in any other Rhinoceros. In the Indian one-horned species the sexes are alike in size and development of horn.
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File AvailableGens, E. 1861 Promenade au Jardin Zoologique d'Anvers. Antwerpen, J.E. Buschmann, pp. 1-188
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The horn is composed of a fibrous and horny substance, similar to agglutinated hairs.
LE RHINOCÉROS

est, après l'Eléphant, le plus grand des Pachidermes. Ce qui le
distingue, c'est l'extrême épaisseur et la dureté de sa peau sur
laquelle les balles font ricoch...
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File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1861 Forschungen uber die Fauna des Rothen Meeres und der Somali-Kuste: ein systematisches Verzeichniss der Saugethiere und Vogel, welche in diesen Regionen bisher beobachtet worden sind. Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt 1861: 11-32
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African Rhino Species
According to Lef?bvre, there would be rhinoceros species with three, four or more horns in Abyssinia, and the horn would be moveable.
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File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1861 Forschungen uber die Fauna des Rothen Meeres und der Somali-Kuste: ein systematisches Verzeichniss der Saugethiere und Vogel, welche in diesen Regionen bisher beobachtet worden sind. Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt 1861: 11-32
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According to Lef?bvre, there would be rhinoceros species with three, four or more horns in Abyssinia, and the horn would be moveable.
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File AvailableKneeland, S. 1854 On the horn of the rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 4: 175
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If we examine the structure of the horn of the Rhinoceros, we find that it is essentially made p of a collection of hairs, that is, a mass of long corneous cylinders, nearly parallel to each other. If then, we define a hair as a corneous cylinder of variable length, we may regard nails, claws, h...
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File AvailableGray, J.E. 1854 On a new species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1854 November 28: 250-251, fig. 1
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The late Mr. Cross, of Exeter Change and the Surrey Zoological Gardens, much prized a specimen of the horn of a Rhinoceros, which for many years formed part of his collection, and which he considered as indicating the existence of a hitherto unrecorded species of that genus. At the distribution ...
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