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File AvailableWackernagel, H. 1964 Basle Zoo news. International Zoo News 11 (5): 160
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Indian Rhino
sold male born 9.3.1963 to Paris Vincennes Zoo, in exchange for 0.1 okapi.
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File AvailableFaust, R. 1964 Frankfurt am Main: Jahresbericht 1957. Zoologische Garten 29 (1): 27-41, figs. 1-19
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Black Rhino
The male born 24 Dec 1956 went to the zoo in La Plata on 8 Aug 1957.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1964 Whipsnade - England. International Zoo News 11 (1): 26
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Black Rhino
purchased a pair of black rhinos, housed in new quarters near the White Rhino House.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1964 Bristol - England. International Zoo News 11 (5): 175
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Indian Rhino
Basel Zoo, 1964. Female calf born Aug 1964 was up and about within one and a half hours.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1964 Bristol - England. International Zoo News 11 (5): 175
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Indian Rhino
Weight at birth 60 pounds, female, Bristol Zoo 1964
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File AvailableAndersen, S. 1963 Sumatran rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatraensis) at Copenhagen Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook 3: 56-57, pl. 3
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Sumatran Rhino
Copenhagen Zoo - Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. A warm den and a pool of heated water had been prepared for Subur and the first thing she did on arrival was to go straight into the pool where she immediately defaecated (throughout the flight from Singapore she had hardly defecaeted at all) - and ever...
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File AvailableAndersen, S. 1963 Sumatran rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatraensis) at Copenhagen Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook 3: 56-57, pl. 3
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Sumatran Rhino
In the summer of 1959 an expedition, organized by the Copenhagen and Basle Zoos in association with the Bogor Zoo, Indonesia, set out to try and capture three pairs of Sumatran Rhinos for the Copenhagen, Basle and Bogor Zoos. The underlying purpose of the expedition was to try and start breeding...
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File AvailableAndersen, S. 1963 Sumatran rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatraensis) at Copenhagen Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook 3: 56-57, pl. 3
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Sumatran Rhino
Copenhagen Zoo. Until she arrived at Copenhagen, Subur had been fed daily with boiled rice balls. This was just about the worst thing we could have given her, but when the leaves of her native forests were no longer available, rice was the only thing she would accept. As the result she suffere...
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File AvailableAndersen, S. 1963 Sumatran rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatraensis) at Copenhagen Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook 3: 56-57, pl. 3
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Sumatran Rhino
Copenhagen Zoo. Until she arrived at Copenhagen, Subur had been fed daily with boiled rice balls. This was just about the worst thing we could have given her, but when the leaves of her native forests were no longer available, rice was the only thing she would accept. As the result she suffere...
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File AvailableAndersen, S. 1963 Sumatran rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatraensis) at Copenhagen Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook 3: 56-57, pl. 3
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Sumatran Rhino
Copenhagen Zoo. Although her skin appears to be thick and heavy, it cannot stand the dryness of the danish summer(even though it often seems very wet to us!). During her first summer (1960), the skin on her back became very broken and chapped. We therefore made her a mud pool in her outdoor en...
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