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Title: Remarks on the procreation of the rhinoceros
Author(s): Hodgson, B.H.
Year published: 1825
Journal: Quarterly Oriental Magazine: review and register
Volume: 3 (5)
Pages: 155-156
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Captive - Asia
Morphology
Indian Rhino
Male born in Kathmandu. When 3 days old, it was distinguished in exterior character from its mother by a bright pink suffusion which pervaded its hide, and by the absence of the nasal horn. When a month old, he found the pink tinge gradually subsiding into an uniform dark colour, whilst the inc...
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Morphology - Size
Indian Rhino
length of head 2 ft 4 inches, one born in Kathmandu after 9 years
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Captive - Asia
Morphology
Indian Rhino
Male born in Kathmandu. When 3 days old, it was distinguished in exterior character from its mother by a bright pink suffusion which pervaded its hide, and by the absence of the nasal horn. When a month old, he found the pink tinge gradually subsiding into an uniform dark colour, whilst the inc...
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World
Ecology - Population
All Rhino Species
The gestation of the rhinoceros was supposed by Buffon not to exceed 9 months and its corresponding life not to pass that of man, and this remark has been repeated by Desmarest.
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World
Reproduction
Indian Rhino
The gestation of the rhinoceros was supposed by Buffon not to exceed 9 months and its corresponding life not to pass that of man, and this remark has been repeated by Desmarest. Hodgson observed the habits of a male and female rhinoceros kept in the Menagerie of the Raja of Nipal. He states tha...
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Captive - Asia
Captivity - Zoo Records
Indian Rhino
Hodgson observed the habits of a male and female rhinoceros kept in the Menagerie of the Raja of Nipal. He states that about 18 months prior to May 1824 a male and female voluntarily associated and that the result after an interval from 17 to 18 months was a fine male cub. Hodgson first saw the ...
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