 | Boule, M. 1900 Etude paleontologique et archeologique sur la station paleolithique du Lac Karar (Algerie). Anthropologie 11: 1-21, figs. 1-24 |
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White Rhino
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| The teeth from Lake Karar can be attributed to Rh. camus, which still lives in the centre of Africa. |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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White Rhino
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| In the middle and later portions of the Tertiary epochs rhinoceroses were spread over the rest of the Old World, even within the arctic and subarctic regions, where roamed the woolly rhinoceros (R. antiquitatis), considered to be closely allied to the white rhinoceros; hitherto no fossil species ... |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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| head very long and massive |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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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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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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Ecology - Interspecific Relations
White Rhino
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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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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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| tail much as in R.bicornis, but with only the last quarter provided with wiry bristles. |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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Anatomy - Reproductive organs
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| Two mammae. |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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| upper lip straight and round with no trace of a proboscis. |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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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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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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| colour not perceptibly lighter than the other species, being a slaty grey black. |
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