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| ears longer and more pointed than in the other species, springing from a closed cylinder about three inches long |
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Ecology - Interspecific Relations
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| like many of the other large thin-haired animals they are constantly accompanied by rhinoceros birds (Buphaga), which feed on the ticks and other parasites lodged on the skin of their host, and give timely warning of any approaching danger; when the rhinoceros is disturbed, and makes off, the bir... |
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| tail much as in R.bicornis, but with only the last quarter provided with wiry bristles. |
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| Two mammae. |
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| upper lip straight and round with no trace of a proboscis. |
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| ears longer and more pointed than in the other species, springing from a closed cylinder about three inches long |
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| colour not perceptibly lighter than the other species, being a slaty grey black. |
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Morphology - Skull
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| The skull (see fig. 75, p. 297), is altogether larger than in the other species, and the portion behind the orbit is drawn out, so that the angle formed at the occipital crest between the parietal and occipital regions is a very acute one; the front portion, too, of the mandible is much more depr... |
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| Thomas, O. 1900 The white rhinoceros on the upper Nile. Nature 62 (1616), October 18, 1900: 599 |
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| The discovery of Ceratotherium simum in the Nile watershed brings it geographically nearer to its European and Siberian ally, the Pleistocene R. antiquitatis, both species being in turn, no doubt, offshoots of the Pliocene R. platyrhinus of the Siwaliks. |
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