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| upper lip straight and round with no trace of a proboscis. |
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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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| Ear to nose-tip 35.0 inch |
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| Ear from notch - 9.0 inch |
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| only one young one is produced at a birth, the mother, too, exhibits great affection towards her offspring. |
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| Rhinoceros simus, Burchell, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, p. 96 (1817); A.Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. ii, p. 179 (1834) ; id. Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm. pl. xix (1839); Drummond, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p.109; Buckley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 280; Selous, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 725 [... |
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| when it moves, the head is carried very low so that the horn is almost parallel to the ground, and should a mother have a young calf it always precedes her, being guided by the tip of her horn gently pressing on its rump |
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| when it moves, the head is carried very low so that the horn is almost parallel to the ground, and should a mother have a young calf it always precedes her, being guided by the tip of her horn gently pressing on its rump |
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| A curious variety considered by Gray to be a distinct species, and named by him Rhinouros oswellii, is distinguished by possessing a straight anterior horn projecting forward at an acute angle, but this is now acknowledged to be merely an accidental variation. |
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