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Reference Base Interesting selections from animated nature, with illustr... |
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Interesting selections from animated nature, with illustrative scenery, designed and engraved by William Daniell |
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Daniell, W. |
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1807 |
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London, T.Cadell and W. Davies |
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vol. 2, pls. 1-63 |
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All Rhino Species
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The hide of the African rhinoceros is not so impenetrable as that of the Asiatic species. It is pervious to the lances, or hassagais of the Hottentots, who hunt the animal for the sake of the horns and the skin. |
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All Rhino Species
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Interesting selections from animated nature, 63 unnumbered plates, each followed by one page of text. Plates not coloured. No date, the plates are dated individually.
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Two Horned Rhinoceros
Designed & engraved by Will.m Daniell & Published by Mess.rs Cadell & Davies, London, March... |
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Black Rhino
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The hide of the African rhinoceros is not so impenetrable as that of the Asiatic species. It is pervious to the lances, or hassagais of the Hottentots, who hunt the animal for the sake of the horns and the skin. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Morphology - Horn
Black Rhino
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The rhinoceros is the only animal that carries a horn upon the nose, and a singularity attends its attachment which is deserving of notice. The Asiatic species has but one, the African boasts of two; both are alike fixed to the integuments, and not to the bone of the nose; so that when the anima... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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It therefore nearly approaches the elephant in bulk, but differs infinitely in intelligence, being stupid, brutal and absolutely indocile. |
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Black Rhino
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With this powerful weapon of defence, the rhinoceros will contend with the elephant, and frequently proves victorious. |
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Black Rhino
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The hide of the African rhinoceros is not so impenetrable as that of the Asiatic species. It is pervious to the lances, or hassagais of the Hottentots, who hunt the animal for the sake of the horns and the skin. |
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Black Rhino
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Next to the elephant, the rhinoceros is the most powerful of quadrupeds: when full grown, it is at least twelve feet long, six or seven feet high, and of a circumference almost equal to its length. |
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Black Rhino
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Next to the elephant, the rhinoceros is the most powerful of quadrupeds: when full grown, it is at least twelve feet long, six or seven feet high, and of a circumference almost equal to its length. |
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Next to the elephant, the rhinoceros is the most powerful of quadrupeds: when full grown, it is at least twelve feet long, six or seven feet high, and of a circumference almost equal to its length. |
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