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| tail reaching about three quarters of the way to the hocks with a double line of bristles on the posterior two-thirds. |
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Black Rhino
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| Synonyms of Rhinoceros bicornis.
Rhinoceros unicornis var. bicornis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i, p. 104 (1766).
Rhinoceros bicornis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, p. 57 (1788); Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Petersb. iii, p. 320 (1811); A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm. pl. ii (1838); Layard, Ca... |
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Black Rhino
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| South Africa. From a mounted specimen; tail 28.0 inch |
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| Limbs stout and of moderate length with three well developed toes, each provided with a broad rounded hoof. Limbs solid and massive, each with three broad nail-like hoofs |
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| upper lip with a very distinct median prolongation forming a kind of rudimentary proboscis |
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| skin almost smooth and very thick |
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| head comparatively short. |
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| South Africa. Average horns measure, the anterior from 18 to 20 in. and the posterior from 7 to 8 in. respectively. Ward notices a head from Zululand, of which the anterior horn reached 41.5, while the posterior was only 10; while in another case the anterior was 32.5, and the posterior 19.0, t... |
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| ears somewhat funnel-shaped with rounded tips, the [305] margins clothed with a fringe of black hair |
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| A variety which appears to be only an accidental one, in which the posterior horn is equal to, or exceeds the anterior one, was long considered a distinct species under the name of R. keitloa; that every gradation between the relative size of the two horns is found in nature, and that the distinc... |
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