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Reference Base  Epidermal structures in a rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) |
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| Title: |
Epidermal structures in a rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) |
| Author(s): |
Cave, A.J.E.; Allbrook, D.B. |
| Year published: |
1958 |
| Journal: |
Nature |
| Volume: |
182 |
| Pages: |
196-197 |
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Morphology
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| It is frequently stated that body hairs, save those constituting the ear- and tail-fringes are lacking in the Rhinocerotidae, though Beddard recognized an unobtrusive and rather sparse hairy covering as a general familial character.
Neuville observed hairs around the base of the horn in the thre... |
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| It is frequently stated that body hairs, save those constituting the ear- and tail-fringes are lacking in the Rhinocerotidae, though Beddard recognized an unobtrusive and rather sparse hairy covering as a general familial character.
Neuville observed hairs around the base of the horn in the thre... |
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| Ceratotherium simum. Most accounts of rhinoceros skin detail its more obvious characteristics, namely, its rough, wrinkled and mammillated exterior, its well-keratinized epidermis and its thick, weighty and inelastic dermis. Concerning the structure of such skin and the possible presence of epi... |
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| Ceratotherium simum. Most unexpected, however, was the finding of large apocrine sweat glands, characterized by an abundance of relatively large, ectodermally developed myoepithelial cells, an anatomical arrangement clearly subserving the rapid and copious discharge of sweat.
The obtrusively la... |
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