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Title: An inverted tooth in a white rhinoceros
Author(s): Hickman, G.C.
Year published: 1979
Journal: Lammergeyer
Volume: 27
Pages: 46-47, fig. 1
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Museums - Africa
Museums
White Rhino
Skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: South Africa, Umfolozi. Player, I., D.E. van Dyk and J.C. Poynton, 1961. In coll. University of Natal, Dept. Zoology, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Catalogue number: 2064
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Museums
White Rhino
Skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: South Africa, Umfolozi. Player, I., D.E. van Dyk and J.C. Poynton, 1961. In coll. University of Natal, Dept. Zoology, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Catalogue number: 2064
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: South Africa, Umfolozi. Player, I., D.E. van Dyk and J.C. Poynton, 1961. In coll. University of Natal, Dept. Zoology, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Catalogue number: 2064
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World
Behaviour - Locomotion
White Rhino
A gallop of 40 kph, the speed of the white rhino.
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Behaviour - Fighting
White Rhino
Male collected in Umfolozi in 1961. Death ensued from a fight with an adult male, a broken left rib being one of the injuries sustained. The right ramus of the mandible had previously been broken. The blow responsible for the injury could have been delivered at a gallop of 40 kph. In this ins...
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Morphology - Skull
White Rhino
Ceratotherium simum - inverted lower PM1. Male collected in Umfolozi in 1961. The right ramus of the mandible had previously been broken and PM1 rotated through 180 degrees in a transverse plane, fixing the tooth in an inverted position. The occlusal surface was buried deep in the ramus, and th...
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