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Guide to the Galleries of Mammalia, 7th ed |
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British Museum (Natural History) |
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1902 |
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London, British Museum (Natural History) |
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Morphology - Horn
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| The horns, the first of which is placed on the muzzle, differ essentially in structure from those of other Mammals, being composed of modified and agglutinated hairs. |
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| Of the living Rhinoceroses there are five known species, all large animals, with such thick and unyielding skins as to necessitate in some the formation of deep folds to enable thein to move their limbs with any facility; they have three toes on each foot. |
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| This group is now restricted to the African and Oriental regions, but in former times was spread over all Europe, Asia, and America. One of these extinct forms (R. antiquitatis), a native of Europe and N. Asia, was invested with a coat of thick woolly hairs, like its contemporary, the Mammoth. |
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| The Rhinoceroses, of which two skeletons are placed in the centre of the Gallery, with skulls in case 38, are characterized by the thickness and solidity of their bones, by the structure of their molar teeth, and the enlargement of their nasal bones to serve as supports for the external horns. I... |
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Guide to the Galleries of Mammalia, 7th ed
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