Reference Base Notes for: Sumatran Rhino back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (36)  ... 32 33 34 35 36  Murton, H.J.; Krohn, W. 1876 Report on the Zoological Department for 1875. Annual Reports on the Botanic Gardens, Singapore 1875-1890, Singapore Govt Office: 1-2, 1 table Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia History Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Sclater, P.L. 1875 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the upper horn of a two-horned rhinoceros from the Valley of the Brahmapootra. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875 November 16: 566 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Bhutan Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Exhibited the upper horn of a two-horned rhinoceros shot in March 1875 by Lieut.Col. C. Napier Sturt, in the valley of the Brahmapootra, about 40-50 miles north-east of Dohbree, in company of Mr. Archibald Campbell, Deputy-Commissioner of Dohbree, and Mr. Williamson, Governor of the Towra Hills. ...   details Anonymous 1875 Presentation of rhinoceros by Sir Andrew Clarke . Straits Times, Singapore 15 May 1875: 4 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Captivity Sumatran Rhino Sir Andrew Clarke has presented the Zoological department of the Gardens with a fine female two-horned rhinoceros. The animal is a magnificent specimen, and is, besides, in calf. She is receiving every attention under the superintendence of Mr. W. Krohn, who has undertaken the care of animals and...   details Anonymous 1875 The two-horned rhinoceros [captured in Chittagong]. Times of India 20 June 1875 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Grote, A. 1875 Memoir of Edward Blyth. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 44 (2) Extra: i-xxiv Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh Distribution Sumatran Rhino A.Grote, biography Blyth [x] Blyth made a short tour in the Provinces in July, 1856. He spent some six weeks in Lucknow, Cawnpore, Allahabad, and Benares. Oude had just been annexed, and the sale of the Royal Menagerie at Lucknow had been determined on. The tigers were the finest caged specime...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1874 Exhibition of a rhinoceros-horn from Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Horn. Locality: Borneo. Coll. Bartlett, London, United Kingdom   details Bartlett, A.D. 1874 Exhibition of a rhinoceros-horn from Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 499 Location: Subject: Species: Museums - Europe Museums Sumatran Rhino Horn. Locality: Borneo. Coll. Bartlett, London, United Kingdom   details Bartlett, A.D. 1874 Exhibition of a rhinoceros-horn from Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Mr. Bartlett remarked that these specimens left no doubt of the existence in Borneo of a Rhinoceros which was probably allied to R. sondaicus, but of smaller dimensions.   details Everett, A.H. 1874 Notes In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino and the country at the head of the Rejang, i.e. for the last five days of its course, would seem to be well suited to be the habitat of this bulky herbivore, being described as destitute of any settled human population, and as affording stretches of tolerably level and grassy country which afford...   details Everett, A.H. 1874 Notes In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino but there is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island.   details Everett, A.H. 1874 Notes In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino `I have forwarded to you, through Dr. Jessopp, of Norwich, two Rhinoceros-horns, obtained in the Bazaar at Sibu, the principal station of the Sarawak Government in the Rejang river. These specimens, together with three others, the largest of which, measured perpendicularly, stood 8 ? inches hig...   details Everett, A.H. 1874 Notes In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino but there is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island.   details Everett, A.H. 1874 Notes In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino but there is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island.   details Wallace, A.R. 1874 On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Names in vernacular Sumatran Rhino Temadu   details Newman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino It is now supposed that Asia or its islands possess in addition two two-horned species, which have been called R. malayanus and R. lasiotis; the latter is comparatively new, and was exhibited for the first time in the Gardens last year. These two, concerning which much has been written, agree in...   details Wallace, A.R. 1874 On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino I have forwarded to you, through Dr. Jessopp, of Norwich, two Rhinoceros-horns, obtained in the Bazaar at Sibu, the principal station of the Sarawak Government in the Rejang river. These specimens, together with three others, the largest of which, measured perpendicularly, stood 8 ? inches high...   details John Robinson's Great World's Exposition 1874 Exhibition of a black Sumatran rhinoceros. Orangeburg news., November 07, 1874 7 November 1874: 2 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - North America Captivity Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Dubarry, A. 1874 Rhinoceros et tapirs a dos blancs. Musee des Familles: Lectures du Soir 1874: 145-148 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.   details Anonymous 1873 Birth of a rhinoceros in London. Zoologist (2) 8: 3365-3366 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino Birth of a Rhinoceros in London. This unprecedented event occurred in the London Docks on the evening of the 6th of December [1872], and we learn the following particulars from the obliging keeper Mr. John Warncken. The two animals, mother and child, are the property of Mr. Rice, naturalist, of ...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Skeleton Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. One thing appeared to me remarkable - the condition of the hoofs; they were turned under the feet, as will be seen by the drawings. The extreme points of the hoofs were quite soft, like the same parts of a newly born calf. It is quite evident, from the manner of the turni...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Reproduction Sumatran Rhino About 7 o'clock in the evening of that day the keeper was surprised to hear a feeble squeaking voice proceeding from the den containing the Rhinoceros. He was soon made aware of the cause of this small voice; for upon examining the den he found the beast had produced a young one, which was still...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. It was 3 feet in length, 2 feet high at the shoulder ; and its weight, as near as I was able to judge by lifting it, was rather over 50 lb.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Reproduction Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks, London. Now, believing the statement of Mr. Engelecke, this animal had been captured but little over seven months on her arrival in the docks,and Mr. Engelecke told me that her captors had witnessed the act of her copulation just before she was caught in the pitfall: we may...   details Veth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Behaviour - Towards Man Sumatran Rhino The rhino of Sumatra is smaller and less brave than that of Java, which makes it less dangerous to hunt it.   details Anonymous 1873 Birth of a rhinoceros in London. Zoologist (2) 8: 3365-3366 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Reproduction Sumatran Rhino Birth in Victoria Docks. The period of gestation, hitherto unknown, has, we believe, now been ascertained to be nine months.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.   details Timbs, J. 1873 The hairy rhinoceros. The year-book of facts in science and art 1873: 224-226 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Taxonomy Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Sclater, P.L. 1873 New Asiatic rhinoceros. The year-book of facts in science and art 1873: 224 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Taxonomy Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Skeleton Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. One thing appeared to me remarkable - the condition of the hoofs; they were turned under the feet, as will be seen by the drawings. The extreme points of the hoofs were quite soft, like the same parts of a newly born calf. It is quite evident, from the manner of the turni...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Young in Victoria Docks, London In appearance the young Rhinoceros (see Plate XI.) reminds one of a young Ass, viewing its long legs and general mode of moving its large long head and meagre looking body. The front horn on the nose is about 3/4 of an inch high; the posterior horn is not develop...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Behaviour - Social Behaviour Sumatran Rhino About 7 o'clock in the evening of that day the keeper was surprised to hear a feeble squeaking voice proceeding from the den containing the Rhinoceros. He was soon made aware of the cause of this small voice; for upon examining the den he found the beast had produced a young one.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino The steamship Orchis arrived at the Victoria Docks from Singapore on Decernber 7, 1872, having on board an adult female Sumatran Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis). [Left Singapore on 21 september] About 7 o'clock in the evening of that day the keeper was surprised to hear a feeble squeakin...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino transport R. lasiotis. It has occurred to me since that she was probably in the sulks; for I remember the account of the Hairy-eared Rhinoceros when being removed in Calcutta; she turned sulky and lay down in the street, and it was with the greatest difficulty she was dragged or rather slid alon...   details Anonymous 1873 Birth of a rhinoceros in London. Zoologist (2) 8: 3365-3366 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Reproduction Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks London - sucking. The mother soon afterwards arrived in a van, and the young one was fed with her milk. This is the only nourishment it takes; but it is so strong and vigorous that it applies to the mother repeatedly, and the keeper (who sleeps all night with it) informed u...   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Birth young in Victoria Docks. It was 3 feet in length, 2 feet high at the shoulder ; and its weight, as near as I was able to judge by lifting it, was rather over 50 lb.   details Sclater, P.L. 1873 Remarks on animals seen in some of the continental zoological gardens. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 May 20: 473-474 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino In the Garden of the Zoological Society of Hamburg the female Sumatran rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis) obatined about the same time as that formerly in this Society's Gardens was one of the principal animals.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Birth Victoria Docks. It was 3 feet in length, 2 feet high at the shoulder ; and its weight, as near as I was able to judge by lifting it, was rather over 50 lb.   details Bartlett, A.D. 1873 Rhinoceros in Victoria Docks [from PZSL]. Nature 7, January 30: 255 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Captivity Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Garrod, A.H. 1873 On the visceral anatomy of the Sumatran rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus sumatrensis). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 92-104, figs. 1-8 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Woodthorpe, R.G. 1873 The Lushai expedition 1871-1872. London, Hurst and Blackett Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Beach, A.E. 1873 A new rhinoceros. Science Record 2: 457-459 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Taxonomy Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Taylor, J.E. 1873 The new rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Hardwicke's Science Gossip 8 (83, April): 78-79 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Captivity Sumatran Rhino THE NEW RHINOCEROS AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Of all the recent additions to the magnificent collection of the Zoological Society, few will be of more interest to the intelligent sight-seer than the Sumatran Rhinoceros. We paid a visit, a few days ago, to this animal, under the able guidance ...   details Anonymous 1873 The young rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 41 (1045), 1873 January 4: 2-3, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive History Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Rice, C.W. 1873 The late baby rhinoceros and his mother. The Graphic Saturday 11 January 1873: 41 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Captivity Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Zoological Society of London 1873 Report of the Council of the Zoological Society of London, read at the Annual General Meeting, April 29, 1873. London, ZSL Location: Subject: Species: Captive Captivity Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Sclater, P.L. 1872 Announcement of the addition to the Society's collection of a female Sumatran Rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 20: 185 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino On 15 Feb. 1870 was purchased from Mr. Wm. Jamrach for o 1250 a fine female specimen of Rhinoceros sumatrensis from Chittagong.   details Buckland, F. 1872 Birth of a rhinoceros in London. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 1872 December 14: 582 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Captivity Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail : this coarse hair occurs also on the upper anterior portion of the fore legs, and more sparingly on the belly. There is a fringe...   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn 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.   details Tegetmeier, W.B. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens In: Newman, E. Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Female caught in Chittagong for London Zoo. When first captured she was about six feet in length from the forehead to the root of the tail, and upwards of four feet in height.   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin is without those enormous folds which are so imposing in R. unicornis: it has only one fold, and that is immediately behind the shoulder and extends round the barrel of the animal ; there are half-folds or large wrinkles between the ears, on the under side of the neck, and a...   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail.   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin is without those enormous folds which are so imposing in R. unicornis: it has only one fold, and that is immediately behind the shoulder and extends round the barrel of the animal ; there are half-folds or large wrinkles between the ears, on the under side of the neck, and a...   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail.   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Morphology Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The skin, moreover, appears flexible, arid is covered with coarse hair, which is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to the tail : this coarse hair occurs also on the upper anterior portion of the fore legs, and more sparingly on the belly. There is a fringe...   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn 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.   details Tegetmeier, W.B. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens In: Newman, E. Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Female caught in Chittagong for London Zoo. When first captured she was about six feet in length from the forehead to the root of the tail, and upwards of four feet in height.   details Friedel, E. 1872 Thierleben und Thierpflege in Holland, England u Belgien (Reisebemerkungen aus dem Jahre 1871). Zoologische Garten A.F. 13 (11): 353-364 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino The zoo bought a specimen as R. sumatrensis from Jamrach for ? 1250. According to the work of Dr Sclater, this would be a new species which he called Rh. Lasiotis, differing from R. sumatrensis by the smoother skin in lasiotis, while the ear is larger and more hairy.   details Tegetmeier, W.B. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens In: Newman, E. Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino For a most interesting account of the capture, purchase and transport of this valuable animal, I am indebted to the columns of the 'Field', to which paper it was contributed by my friend Mr. Tegetmeier. It is here reprinted. 'About five years ago a Calcutta paper announced the capture of a you...   details Newman, E. 1872 Another rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3232-3233 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino September 1872. During the last fortnight another hairy rhinoceros has arrived from the East, and this, like the former, but i trust more correctly, is supposed to be Rhinoceros sumatranus.   details Sclater, P.L. 1872 Notes on Propithecus bicornis and Rhinoceros lasiotis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 10 (58): 298-299 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino I may add that Mr Blyth, who has paid special attention to Asiatic rhinos, and Dr. Dorner, who has examined not only the specimen in the Regent's Park, but also the similar animal in the Zoological Society of Hamburg, of which he is Secretary, are both of opinion that the Malaccan animal is the t...   details Sclater, P.L. 1872 Announcement of the addition to the Society's collection of a female Sumatran Rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 20: 185 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino On 15 Feb. 1870 was purchased from Mr. Wm. Jamrach for ? 1250 a fine female specimen of Rhinoceros sumatrensis from Chittagong.   details Friedel, E. 1872 Thierleben und Thierpflege in Holland, England u Belgien (Reisebemerkungen aus dem Jahre 1871). Zoologische Garten A.F. 13 (11): 353-364 Location: Subject: Species: World Taxonomy Sumatran Rhino The zoo bought a specimen as R. sumatrensis from Jamrach for ? 1250. According to the work of Dr Sclater, this would be a new species which he called Rh. Lasiotis, differing from R. sumatrensis by the smoother skin in lasiotis, while the ear is larger and more hairy.   details Sclater, P.L. 1872 A new Asiatic rhinoceros. Popular Science Review 11: 432 Location: Subject: Species: World Taxonomy Sumatran Rhino Popular Science Review. Proceedings of the British Association Meeting (no date) Dr Sclater read a peper on a 'New Asiatic Rhinoceros' with remarks on the recent species of the genus. On 14 February 1872, the Zoo in London received a female two-horned rhino, which had been captured near Chitta...   details Newman, E. 1872 Another rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3232-3233 Location: Subject: Species: World Taxonomy Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The animal from Chittagong was reported as Rhinoceros sumatranus. It now appears that the name was given prematurely, that it is a species previously unknown to science, and unnamed, and it is proposed to call it 'Rhinoceros lasiotis', on account, I presume, of the fringe of long ha...   details Sclater, P.L. 1872 On Rhinoceros lasiotis. Athenaeum 1872 August 24 (no. 2339): 243 Location: Subject: Species: World Taxonomy Sumatran Rhino Athenaeum, 24 August 1872. Dr Sclater gave a description of a new species or rhinoceros, Rhinoceros lasiotis, captured near Chittagong, and distinct from R. sumatrensis. Six species of the genus are therefore now known. The animal was living in the Zoological Society's Gardens.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The hindmost horn is the smallest and about two inches in height; it has, a quadrangular base, with two of the angles external (one posterior and the other anterior), and its apex is conical. It is placed between the eyes, but its posterior bas...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The animal is remarkably quiet, considering that she is chained by her four feet between two trees. During night she becomes very restless, and on several occasions has contrived, by stretching her hind legs to the utmost, to reach a strongly b...   details Friedel, E. 1872 Thierleben und Thierpflege in Holland, England u Belgien (Reisebemerkungen aus dem Jahre 1871). Zoologische Garten A.F. 13 (11): 353-364 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Value Sumatran Rhino London Zoo. The zoo bought a specimen as R. sumatrensis from Jamrach for ? 1250.   details Sclater, P.L. 1872 Announcement of the addition to the Society's collection of a female Sumatran Rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 20: 185 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Value Sumatran Rhino On 15 Feb. 1870 was purchased from Mr. Wm. Jamrach for ? 1250 a fine female specimen of Rhinoceros sumatrensis from Chittagong.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino The specimen examined is a young female that strayed into Chittagong in February 1869, when it was captured, and where it has remained till within the last few weeks. It has been brought to Calcutta by Mr. Jamrach of London, to whom I am indebted for my examination of this interesting animal. Mr....   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She is fed on pulse and grass, but has a special liking for the thick fleshy stems of the plantain and for the small branches of the mango-tree, which she devours with evident pleasure, her powerful jaws crushing with ease young twigs about an ...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Behaviour - Daily Routine Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She has a peculiar habit of squirting out her urine to a great distance, s?nding it out behind her nearly twenty feet, a habit which may be the means by which the male is made aware of her presence in the dense recesses of her native forests, w...   details Newman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity - Zoo Records Sumatran Rhino Both the horns in the individual now before me have the appearance of having been sawn off, an appearance admirably represented in the masterly figure of the animal published at p.233 of the 'Field' newspaper, a faithful representation of nature which does the artist infinite credit. In this and...   details Sclater, P.L. 1872 Notes on Propithecus bicornis and Rhinoceros lasiotis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 10 (58): 298-299 Location: Subject: Species: World Taxonomy Sumatran Rhino Answer to Gray 1872. As regards the two asiatic two-horned rhinoceroses in the Zoological Society's Gardens, when the first specimen arrived from Chittagong I referred it to Rhinoceros sumatrensis, that being the only species of this section then known to science. But when the second animal (ob...   details Buckland, F. 1872 A new rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Land and Water 1872 August 10: 89 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Taxonomy - Nomenclature Sumatran Rhino A new rhinoceros the zoological Gardens - By the kindness of Mr Bartlett I have been enabled carefully to inspect very remarkable animal which has just been added to the collection in the zoological Gardens. It is a hairy rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Sumatrensis). This animal has never before been ...   details Tegetmeier, W.B. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens In: Newman, E. Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Size Sumatran Rhino Female caught in Chittagong for London Zoo. The horns were small, not more than three inches in length, the upper being in front of the eyes.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino Since writing the above, I have learned from my friend Lieut. Bourne that a smooth-skinned Rhinoceros is said by the Cossyahs to occur in their hills, two days' journey to the south of Charyolah. These men know Rhinoceros sondaicus, so that it seems very probable that R. sumatrensis extends into ...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino There is no previous record of this Rhinoceros having been found so far west* [* In the 'Mammals of India' it is stated to have been shot at as high a latitude as 23' N., near Sandoway, which, however, lies only between the 18th and 19th parallels N.] as Chittagong, about 92? E. long.; but I see ...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino It is also probable, as Blyth observes, that it ranges into Assam, because, while at Bbamo in Upper Burniah, I was informed by an intelligent native that two-horned Rhinocerotes are found in the Mogonny district, which is close to the confines of Assam, and as far north as the twenty-sixth degree...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Records Sumatran Rhino It is also probable, as Blyth observes, that it ranges into Assam, because, while at Bbamo in Upper Burniah, I was informed by an intelligent native that two-horned Rhinocerotes are found in the Mogonny district, which is close to the confines of Assam, and as far north as the twenty-sixth degree...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Ecology - Food Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] She is fed on pulse and grass, but has a special liking for the thick fleshy stems of the plantain and for the small branches of the mango-tree, which she devours with evident pleasure, her powerful jaws crushing with ease young twigs about an ...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Taxonomy - Taxa Sumatran Rhino [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...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The ears are full and more rounded than pointed, and fringed with long, rather drooping hairs.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The ears are full and more rounded than pointed, and fringed with long, rather drooping hairs.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The eye is small.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The upper lip is anteriorly pointed and prehensile.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The tail has numerous transverse folds, and reaches nearly to a line with the groin, having long hair on the anterior and posterior borders of its lower third.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The skin is ashy grey,   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The skin is ashy grey, and covered with bristles about one inch in length, and its tubercles are small and flat.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [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...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] On the upper half of the trunk the bristles posterior to the shoulder-fold are almost white in some lights, with a rufous tint in others, while those anterior to the shoulder-fold are dark brown; on the lower half of the trunk and on the limbs ...   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London]   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The general colour of the dry skin is ashy grey; but when moist it becomes a light brown. The axillse and under surface of the groin, and the creases formed by the folds of the body and neck when these are extended, have a fleshy tint.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino This same informant also assured me that he had seen at Mogonny a Rhinoceros-head with three horns.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The head is not much tapered ; the anterior horn, low and rounded, is placed above the nostril; the posterior horn is conical and situated above the eye; the two are separated by a considerable interval.   details Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Morphology - Horn Sumatran Rhino [Female shown in Calcutta 1872 in transit to London] The hindmost horn is the smallest and about two inches in height; it has, a quadrangular base, with two of the angles external (one posterior and the other anterior), and its apex is conical. 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