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Anonymous 1874. On the arrangement of the skin-folds in the one-horned rhinoceri. Nature 9, April 9: 446, fig. 1.

On the arrangement of the skin-folds in the one-horned rhinoceri

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In the two accompanying woodcuts Mr T.W. Wood has very carefully and accurately mapped out for us the manner in which the peculiar skin-folds, so conspicuous in both the Indian one-horned rhinoceri, are arranged over the surfaces of their bodies. The sketches were both taken from specimens now living in the Zoological Gardens, the Indian animal (Rhinoceros unicornis) being a fully adult male

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