Hochadel, O. 2026. Caring for your creatures: Ram Brahma Sanyal and the Calcutta Zoo. British Journal for the History of Science 2026: 1-19. doi.org/10.1017/S000708742610212X
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What does 'rhinoceros' mean?
The word comes straight from ancient Greek: rhis (nose) and keras (horn). When it entered English around 1300 it was applied to a vaguely described horned beast that many people took to be a kind of unicorn.
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Cranbrook, Earl of 2026. Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl Cranbrook, obituary. Times (London) 5 September 2026.
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Puettger-Conradt, A. 2013. Das Grab von Heinrich Boie auf Java. Zeitschrift für Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg und Mecklenburg 120: 95-99.
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Puettger-Conradt, A.; Stückler, U. 2026. Elmshorner reist zu Java-Nashörnern nach Indonesien. Pinneberger Zeitung, Hamburg Abendblatt 20 May 2026: 22.
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Puettger-Conradt, A. 2021. Eine neue Marmorplatte für Heinrich Boie in Bango, Java. Zeitschrift für Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg und Mecklenburg 128: 193-197.
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Puettger-Conradt, A. 2020. Die zoologischen Leistungen und wissenschaftlichen Kontakte des Naturforschers Heinrich Boie (1794– 1827). Zeitschrift für Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg und Mecklenburg 130: 174-185.
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Ravsky, E.I. 1960. K stratygrafii chetvertichnykh (Antropogenovykh) otlozhenii yuga i vostoka sibirskoy platformy [On the stratigraphy of Quaternary (Anthropogene) deposits of the southern and eastern Siberian Platform]. Trudy Gelogicheskogo Instituta, Akademya Nauk SSSR 26: 37-95.
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Corder, M.L.; Abulez, T.; Cleland, T.; Petricoin, E.F.; Zhou, W.; Nagashima, J.; Miller, M.; et al. 2026. Immunoproteomic insights into inflammatory diseases of the critically endangered black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Nature: Scientific Reports 16 (13535): 1-17. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-43055-0
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Clarke, J.A.; Larkin, J.; Marianno, C.M.; Johnson, T.E. 2026. The Rhisotope project: using radiation for conservation. Nature: Scientific Reports 16 (17613): 1-8. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-45117-9
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Windle, S.; Roth, T.L.; Stalder, G. 2026. Vitamin D status in North American managed black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) and white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). Conservation Physiology 14 (1): 1-14. doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coag062
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Ames, E.A.; Rowe, A.J.; Button, D.J. 2026. Let them fight: using finite element analysis to determine combative evolutionary drivers of ceratopsian (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) horns. PeerJ 14 e21728: 1-55. doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21728
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Makovska, M.; Killer, J.; Modrackova, N.; Ingrivelli, E.; Amin, A.; Vlkova, E.; Bolechova, P.; et al. 2023. Species and strain variability among Sarcina isolates from diverse mammalian hosts. Animals 13 (9) 1529: 1-11. doi.org/10.3390/ani13091529
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Chen, H.; Qiu, F.; Kulsum, U.; Zhang, C.; Bohnett, E.; Lyu, H.; Tian, S.; et al. 2026. Deep learning-based monitoring and spatiotemporal analysis of wildlife and human activities using camera trap imagery. European Journal of Wildlife Research 72 (5): 1-15. doi.org/10.1007/s10344-026-02156-x
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Dhakal, A.; Ghimire, S.; Pokhrel, S.; Pradhan, A.; Sapkota, N.; Neupane, D. 2026. Landscape change dynamics and patch connectivity in the Chitwan-Parsa Complex, Nepal. Journal of Landscape Ecology 19 (4): 107-138. doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2026-0040
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