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Bartlett, A.D. 1873. On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1.

On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros

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Location Captive Subject Morphology Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.

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Location Captive Subject Morphology Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Birth Victoria Docks, London. Now, believing the statement of Mr. Engelecke, this animal had been captured but little over seven months on her arrival in the docks,and Mr. Engelecke told me that her captors had witnessed the act of her copulation just before she was caught in the pitfall: we may presume, therefore, that the period of gestation does not differ much from that of the Hippopotamus.

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Location Captive Subject Morphology Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.

Note
Location Captive Subject Morphology Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.

Note
Location Captive Subject Morphology Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Birth Victoria Docks. Nearly black and covered with short crisp black hair, its ears very hairy inside as well as outside, the tail quite-like a brush at the tip, it was thin and bony, looking much like a starved pig.

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