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Title: Neues aus der Schausammlung: das Indische Nashorn
Author(s): Marx, E.; Koch, A.
Year published: 1910
Journal: Bericht des Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft
Volume: 41 (3)
Pages: 161-171, figs. 1-7
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Museums - Europe
Museums
Indian Rhino
Mounted skin, skeleton. Collected by: Zoo Frankfurt, 1909. In coll. Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Captive - Europe
Museums
Indian Rhino
Mounted skin, skeleton. Collected by: Zoo Frankfurt, 1909. In coll. Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Present in Nepal in good numbers only to be hunted by the Maharajah.
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World
Morphology
Indian Rhino
The colour of the animals looks darker in the wild as it is in reality. The Indian rhino is light grey [hellgrau], the african yellowish brown. But the mud makes it look darker.
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Morphology
Indian Rhino
The hide of the Indian rhino looks like an armour, divided in shileds by enormous folds. As the skin is relatively thin in these folds, the hide can move in these areas. The hide of each shield is gain modelled in an extremely detailed way by netshaped drawings and small polygonal fields which ...
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Behaviour - Towards Man
Indian Rhino
The temperament of the animal is never kind. It can never be trusted, and although it looks indefensive when sleeping, it is quite brutal in the attack.
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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Indian Rhino
One shown in Antwerp.
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Captive - Europe
Museums
Indian Rhino
Female Rhinoceros unicornis euthanized in Frankfurt Zoo on 24 Aug 1909. Immediately after the death of the animal, it was put on its side and we began with the sculpturing in plaster. That was hard work. To make a model of one side of the animal was sufficient. Due to the animal's size, this ...
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Translocation - Methods
Indian Rhino
The animals are good mothers and to obain a young one, the mother must first be killed. That is the only way to get one for a zoo, as with the animal's great strength, it is impossible to catch and transport any but the young animals. As it is not easy to raise the young and the distance from c...
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Diseases - External causes
Indian Rhino
Female Rhinoceros unicornis in Frankfurt Zoo on 24 Aug 1909 euthanized with injection of 2 gr of Skopolamin.
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