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Reference Base Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park, 1... |
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Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park, 15th ed |
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Hornaday, W.T. |
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1918 |
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New York, Zoological Society |
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pp. 1-192 |
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Africa
Distribution - Reasons for decline
African Rhino Species
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The African Two-Horned Rhinoceros once was very abundant throughout the whole of the fertile plains region of east and south Africa, but the onslaughts of hunters have exterminated it from probably nine-tenths of the territory that it once occupied. To-day, the Englishmen of Africa are earnestly... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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specimen in New York Zoo. The African Two-Horned Rhinoceros, (Rhinoceros bicornis) is already represented by a female specimen which was acquired in 1906. `Victoria' was captured in July, 1905. in the northern point of German East Africa, within about |
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Captive - North America
Captivity - Zoo Records
Indian Rhino
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So pronounced is the rarity of the great Indian Rhinoceros, it is a fact that for nearly fifteen years no living specimens came into the wild-animal market. At last, however, the persistence and industry of the renowned Carl Hagenbeek was rewarded by the capture, in 1906, of four young specimens... |
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Captive - North America
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Black Rhino
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The African Two-Horned Rhinoceros, (Rhinoceros bicornis) is already represented by a female specimen which was acquired in 1906. 'Victoria' was captured in July, 1905. in the northern point of German East Africa, within about sixty miles of the head of Speke Gulf, which is the south eastern arm... |
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