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Title: Birth of a rhinoceros in London
Author(s): Anonymous
Year published: 1873
Journal: Zoologist
Volume: (2) 8
Pages: 3365-3366
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Sumatran Rhino
Birth of a Rhinoceros in London. This unprecedented event occurred in the London Docks on the evening of the 6th of December [1872], and we learn the following particulars from the obliging keeper Mr. John Warncken. The two animals, mother and child, are the property of Mr. Rice, naturalist, of ...
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Reproduction
Sumatran Rhino
Birth in Victoria Docks. The period of gestation, hitherto unknown, has, we believe, now been ascertained to be nine months.
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Sumatran Rhino
Birth Victoria Docks London - sucking. The mother soon afterwards arrived in a van, and the young one was fed with her milk. This is the only nourishment it takes; but it is so strong and vigorous that it applies to the mother repeatedly, and the keeper (who sleeps all night with it) informed u...
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