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The Rhino Document Library

Contains a total of 30095 references.

The RRC website provides access to an extensive database of indexed and tagged references, abstracts and full texts covering all aspects of rhino knowledge. There are no restrictions on language, time period, location or type of publication, including reports and grey literature. Contributions and suggestions are welcome.

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Brandt, J.F. 1878. Bemerkungen ueber eine Synopsis der Familie der Rhinocerotidae. Bulletin de l'l'Academie des Sciences de St Petersbourg 24: 167-168.
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Brandt, J.F. 1878. Tentamen synopseos rhinocerotidum viventium, et fossilium. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg (7) 26 (5): 1-66, pl. 1.
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Rabier, B. 1906. Comment Carolus tua le rhinocéros. Preparatory drawings: Musée de l'Image (D 996.1.16693 B et D 996.1.16722 B). 2 pp..
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Hagenbeck, C. 1874. C. Hagenbeck’s Handels-Menagerie in Hamburg. Gefiederte Welt 3 (26), 25 June 1874: 211-212.
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Dapper, O. 1686. Description de l’Afrique: contenant les noms, la situation & les confins de toutes ses parties, leurs rivieres: avec des cartes des etats, des provinces et des villes. Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom en van Someren.
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Garner, T.; Pidcock, G. 1800. A brief description of the principal foreign animals & birds, now exhibiting at the Grand Menagerie, over Exeter-Change, the property of Mr Gilbert Pidcock,chiefly extracted from the works of Buffon and Goldsmith, with additions and anecdotes. London, G. Pidcock: pp. 1-44.
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Lichtenstein, H. 1812. Travels in Southern Africa in the years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806, translated from the original German by Anne Plumptre. London, Henry Colburn. vol. 1, pp. i-xii, 1-383; vol. 2, pp. i-xiv, 1-368.
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Almeida, Manoel de 1696. Histoire de la Haute Ethiopie ecrite sur les lieux; extraite & traduite de la copie Portugaise du R.P. Baltazar Tellez.
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Wendt, H. 1959. Out of Noah’s Ark. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co: pp. i-xii, 1-464.
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Caughley, G. 1970. Nepal’s rhino are disappearing. Oryx 10 (4): 212-213.
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MacKenzie, R. 2012. Centre and periphery in Lawrence Norfolk’s The Pope’s Rhinoceros and Christoph Ransmayr’s Die letzte Welt. Orbis Litterarum 67 (5): 416–436.
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Anonymous 1870. Accident to the rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 36, 1870 August 13: 152.
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Bacci, A. 1582. Discorso dell’alicorno dell’excellente medico et filosofo M. Andrea Bacci, nel quale si tratta della natura dell’alicorno, & delle molti sue virtu Revisto dal propio Autore con aggiunta delle esperienzi & di molte cose notabit contro a Veleni. Fiorenza, Giorgio Marescotti: pp. i-xvi, 1-159.
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Linnaeus, C. 1735. Systema naturae, sive regna tria naturae systematice proposita per classes, ordines, genera & species [edn 1]. Lugduni Batavorum, Theodorum Haak: pp. i-xiv.
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Beden, M.; Guérin, C. 1973. Le gisement des vertebres du Phnom Loang (Province de Kampot, Cambodge). Travaux et Documents de l'ORSTOM 27: 3-97, pls. 1-6, figs. 1-13.
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Soltykoff, A. 1850. Voyages dans l’Inde, erd edn. Paris, Garnier Freres.
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Beadle 1863. The rhinoceros. Beadle's Dime Song Book (New York) no. 11: 40-41.
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Bautze, J.K. 1993. German private collections of Indo-Islamic paintings. In: Haase C.P; Kröger J.; Lienert U., Oriental splendour: islamic art from german private collections. Hamburg. pp. 247-294.
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Das, A.K. 1995. Notes on an Aurangzeb period album of birds and animals. In: Goswamy B.N.; Bhatia U., Indian painting, essays in honour of Karl J. Khandalavala. New Delhi. pp. 71-85.
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Kruger, P. 1941. Die Lebenserinnerungen des Buren-Präsidenten [1902]: Ohm Krüger ; Mit 16 Aufn. aus d. Tobis-Film “Ohm Krüger”. Berlin, Deutscher Verlag.
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Breidbach, O.; Ghiselin, M.T. 2006. Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) on Noah’s Ark: baroque ‘intelligent design’ theory. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4) 57: 991-1002.
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Vendries, C. 2016. Les Romains et l’image du rhinoceros les limites de la ressemblance. Archeologia Classica, Roma 2016: 279-340.
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Bose, S. 2020. Mega mammals in ancient India: rhinos, tigers & elephants. New Delhi, Oxford University Press: pp. i-xix, 1-361.
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