In the middle of April 1929 Mr Christoph Schulz arrived with a transport of East African animals in Hamburg. With a few exceptions, the animals were taken to Leipzig, where they were shown in a special exhibit from the beginning of May 1929 and later they were shown in the zoo of Chemnitz. A young female rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis Linnaeus) from the Eastafrican highlands (from the slopes of the Ufiome Mountain). It was about one year old in April 1929.
1 yr old female I heard from this young animal only a whistling reducing in strength, which it uttered with mouth closed, probably a sign that it was uncomfortable. When it heard a noise, it would lift the head to listen carefully. It used the upper lip very nicely to take twigs to the mouth. After a few weeks it began to use its horn in the play.
The mother of this young animal was pursued for 5 days and must have walked daily about 20 miles.
In the middle of April 1929 Mr Christoph Schulz arrived with a transport of East African animals in Hamburg. With a few exceptions, the animals were taken to Leipzig, where they were shown in a special exhibit from the beginning of May 1929 and later they were shown in the zoo of Chemnitz. A young female rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis Linnaeus) from the Eastafrican highlands (from the slopes of the Ufiome Mountain). It was about one year old in April 1929.
In the middle of April 1929 Mr Christoph Schulz arrived with a transport of East African animals in Hamburg. With a few exceptions, the animals were taken to Leipzig, where they were shown in a special exhibit from the beginning of May 1929 and later they were shown in the zoo of Chemnitz. A young female rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis Linnaeus) from the Eastafrican highlands (from the slopes of the Ufiome Mountain). It was about one year old in April 1929.
Leipzig Zoo - 1 yr old female. The circumference of the breast was measured by Mr Schulz on 5 June 1929 as 126 cm, and on 29 August 1929 it was 140 cm.
Leipzig Zoo, 1 year old female. The total length taken with a string, from the upper lip to the root of the tail was 157 cm, from the backside of the fronthorn to the root of the tail 143 cm. On 26 August 1929, the total length was 172 cm, from the backside of the front horn to the tail 154 cm.
When I asked Mr Schulz, he said that he never saw a rhinoceros without a horn in the wild. (About changing of horn in the Indian rhinoceros in captivity, see Wunderlich, 1892. In Schillings, Mit Blitzlicht und B?chse, p. 161 there is a female rhinoceros which lost its front horn, see also p. 175).
Leipzig Zoo - 1 yr old female. Height at the shoulder measured with a stick, 84 cm. On 26 August 1929, shoulderheight 87 cm.
