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Title: Hoerner
Author(s): Boas, J.E.V.
Year published: 1931
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Pages: pp. 545-552, figs. 351-360
Reference From:Bolk, L. et al. 1931 Handbuch der vergleichende Anatomie. Berlin and Wien, Urban and Schwarzenberg, vol. 1, pp. i-xvi, 1-752
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The unpaired horn of the rhinoceros is obviously very different from other horns. It is a large cone-shaped mass of horn, in the base of which numerous small skin papillae penetrate in their own tubes. These tubes become increasinly narrow going in distal direction, because they are slowly fill...
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