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Reference Base  A note on the nuchal hump of the square-lipped rhinoceros... |
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A note on the nuchal hump of the square-lipped rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum simum (Burchell) |
| Author(s): |
Alexander, A.; Player, I.C. |
| Year published: |
1965 |
| Journal: |
Lammergeyer |
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3 (2) |
| Pages: |
5-9, pls. 1-2, fig. 1 |
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Anatomy - Glands
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. A final point in relation to the dermis is that sweat glands as described by Cave and Allbrook certainly occur here as well. They do not, however, have a uniform distribution, as can easily be ascertained by examining the sweat patterns on the body of a rhino which has just... |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| C. simum simum would appear to retain more hair in the adult than occurs in the northern race, since every one of more than 70 rhinoceroses captured in the Umfolozi Game Reserve has been covered with hair which could be easily detected by running a hand up the flanks or back. |
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Anatomy - Muscles
White Rhino
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| One of the most obvious anatomical features distinguishing a square-lipped rhinoceros from any other species is the hump on the dorsal part of its neck. Neither of the other two genera of living rhinoceroses have this feature. Several writers have commented on the presence of the hump and made ... |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| In both specimens this tissue differed in no significant feature from that described by Cave and Allbrook and little further comment need be added here. The maximal thickness of the skin ?callous' (49 mm. in the midline of the adult) was slightly more than three times the thickness of the skin j... |
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White Rhino
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| C. simum simum would appear to retain more hair in the adult than occurs in the northern race, since every one of more than 70 rhinoceroses captured in the Umfolozi Game Reserve has been covered with hair which could be easily detected by running a hand up the flanks or back. |
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African Rhino Species
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| Ceratotherium simum - nuchal hump. The muscle itself makes for the edibility of the hump for neither the fat nor the skin, no matter how it was prepared, would be palatable alone. |
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