 | Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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| When driven into the open, the animal will often stand for a few minutes, shaking its ears, before it makes up its mind in which direction to flee. A calf and its mother always issue forth together, but the old bulls and cows keep mostly apart, although both may have their home in the same patch... |
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| Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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| Like all its kindred, the great Indian rhinoceros loves a mud-bath, and when plastered over with the mud of some swamp or pool, looks a more than ordinarily unprepossessing creature. Its favourite haunts are generally in the neighborhood of swamps; and hilly districts are avoided. |
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| Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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| Individuals have lived for over twenty years in the London Zoological Gardens, and it is stated that others have been kept in confinement for fully fifty years. Consequently, there is no doubt that the animal is long-lived, and it has been suggested that its term of life may reach as much as a c... |
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| Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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| The cow gives birth to a single young one at a time |
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| British Museum (Natural History) 1907 Guide to the great game animals (Ungulata) in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History). London, British Museum (Natural History) |
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| Specimens in collection: 1879.11.21.47, length 13 inch, 33 cm, Maximum basal circumference, 18 3/4 inch = 47.6 cm |
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| The great Indian rhinoceros is the largest of the three named Asiatic species, and specially characterised by the possession of a single horn, coupled with the fact that the fold of skin in front of the shoulder is not continued across the back of the neck, and likewise by the skin of the sides o... |
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| Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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Captivity - Zoo Records
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| The rhinoceros referred to on page 31 as having lived in the London Zoological Gardens for over twenty years actually lived there from 1864 to 1904. |
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| A male measured by General A. A. Kinloch stood 5 feet 9 inches at the shoulder, and was 10 ? feet in length from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail; the tail itself being 2 feet 5 inches in length. Larger dimensions are, however, recorded, by Mr. Rowland Ward in Records of Big Game, in... |
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| Lydekker, R. 1907 The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409 |
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| A male measured by General A. A. Kinloch stood 5 feet 9 inches at the shoulder, and was 10 ? feet in length from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail; the tail itself being 2 feet 5 inches in length. Larger dimensions are, however, recorded, by Mr. Rowland Ward in Records of Big Game, in... |
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| Anonymous 1907 The baby rhinoceros. Forest and Stream 68 (5): 173 |
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