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Title: An anatomical description of a male rhinoceros
Author(s): Thomas, H.L.
Year published: 1801
Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Volume: 91 (1)
Pages: 145-152, pl. 10
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Ecology - Food
Indian Rhino
Pidcock, London . He was fed upon hay and oats, also potatoes, and other fresh vegetables.
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Morphology
Indian Rhino
Pidcock Menagerie. The skin, it is well known, is extremely hard and tuberculated, though smoother, and easily cut through by a common knife, on the underparts of the body: a considerable degree of sliding motion was observable between it and the surface underneath; this arose from the great qua...
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Anatomy - Internal organs
Indian Rhino
Rhinoceros unicornis. The kidneys were large, and considerably flattened; they were lobulated.
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Morphology - Horn
Indian Rhino
Pidcock Menagerie. The horn, which is affixed to the upper lip of the adult rhinoceros, was here just beginning to sprout.
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Anatomy - Head
Indian Rhino
I conclude however that if we should ever become acquainted with the natural habits of this animal, his vision will be found to be as perfect as that of any other of the same class. In the muscles, I have already remarked, that there is no difference; of course, the eye-ball, with those powers, ...
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Anatomy - Internal organs
Indian Rhino
Rhinoceros unicornis. The lungs everywhere adhered to the inside of the thorax, and where in a high state of inflammation which latter circumstance was probably the cause of the animal's death.
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Anatomy - Reproductive organs
Indian Rhino
The organs of generation had not arrived to maturity; The penis was curved in its form, with the convex side towards the body; which proves that this animal must be retro-coient: indeed his general structure might have suggested this idea.
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Anatomy - Reproductive organs
Indian Rhino
The inside of the mouth presented nothing unusual; the membranes covering it were not thicker than those found in other graminivorous animals. The pharynx and oesophagus were large and capacious.
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Morphology - Horn
Indian Rhino
Pidcock Menagerie. The horn, which is affixed to the upper lip of the adult rhinoceros, was here just beginning to sprout.
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Anatomy - Internal organs
Indian Rhino
The spleen and pancreas were very similar to those of the ox.
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