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Title: Reproductive behaviour in ungulates
Author(s): Fraser, A.F.
Year published: 1968
Publisher: London and New York, Academic Press
Volume: -
Pages: pp. i-x, 1-202
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Indian Rhino
There are exceptional reports of durable pairings in rhinoceros. Bourliere (Mammals of the world) gave description of such pairing in Rhinoceros unicornis. In the breeding season they pair amd Bourliere describes a case in which one pair was seen to remain exclusively together for 4 months.
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Black Rhino
Diceros bicornis is reported by Young as having a delayed and singularly unique manner of penile protrusion and erection. On initial protrusion the penis is bent downwards and backwards and only later does it become straightened and directed forwards.
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