The Rhino Document Library

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Rumphius, G.E. 1705. D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, Behelzende eene Beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde Schaalvisschen te weeten raare Krabben, Kreeften, en diergelyke Zeedieren als medeallerhande Hoorntjes en Schulpen, die men in d’Amboinsche Zee vindt: daar beneven zommige Mineraalen, Gesteenten, en soorten van Aarde, die in d’Amboinsche, en zommige omleggende Eilanden gevonden worden. Amsterdam, Francois Halma: pp. i-xxx, 1-340, 1-40.

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Scheuchzer, J.J. 1730. Jobs heylige natuur-kennis, vergeleeken met de hedensdaagsche natuur-kunde; behelzende, een voortreffelyke en schriftmaatige uytbreydinge van het boek deses Heyligen Schryvers. Amsterdam, Hendrik Vieroot: pp. 1-538, index.

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Sparrman, A. 1785. A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world, but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to1776. London, G.G.J. and J. Robinson. vol. 1, pp. i-xxviii, 1-368; vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-347, [348-354].

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Sparrman, A. 1787. Reize naar de Kaap de Goede Hoop, de landen van den zuidpool, en rondom de waereld; doch voornaamlijk in de landen der Hottentotten en Kafferen; in de jaaren 1772 tot 1776. Leyden, Sam. En Joh. Luchtmans en Amsterdam, M. de Bruijn.: vol. 1, pp. i-iii, i-lvi, 1-386; vol. 2, pp. i-v, 391-796, 1-63, i-ii.

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Masson, F. 1776. An account of three journeys from the Cape Town into the southern part of Africa; undertaken for the discovery of new plans, towards the improvement of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 66 (1): 268-371.

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Robeyns, G. 2012. Special wishes for the members of Antwerp Zoo; 65 years of history in pictures (1850-1914). Zoologische Garten 81: 14-79.

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Abel, O. 1919. Die Stämme der Wirbeltiere. Berlin und Leipzig, Walter de Gruyter & Co. pp. i-xviii, 1-914.

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Adolf Friedrich, Herzog zu Mecklenburg 1921. Vom Kongo zum Niger und Nil: Berichte der deutschen Zentralafrika-Expedition 1910/1911, 3rd ed. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus. vol. 1, pp. i-x, 1-324; vol. 2, pp. i-x, 1-398.

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Alberuni; Sachau, E.C. 1910. Alberuni's India: an account of the religion, philosophy, literature, geography, chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astrology of India about AD 1030 English edition, with notes and indices, by Edward C Sachau. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner and Co: vol. 1, pp. i-li, 1-408; vol. 2, pp. 1-431.

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Anna, M. 1950. Notes sur la presence du rhinoceros dans la region de l’Ouham (Oubangui-Chari). Mammalia 14: 26-28.

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Antwerp Zoo 1907. Jardin zoologique d'Anvers, Guide illustre. Antwerp, Zoological Society of Antwerp: 65 photogravures.

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Arambourg, C.; Fromaget, J. 1938. Le gisement quaternaire de Tam Nang (Chaine Annamitique septentrionale); sa stratigraphie et ses faunes. Compte Rendu des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 207: 793-795.

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Gregory, M.E.; Rowlands, S.J.; Thompson, S.Y.; Kon, V.M. 1961. The composition of the milk of the African black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis; Linn). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 137: 475-479, fig.1, tables 1-2.

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Baines, T. 1877. The gold regions of South Eastern Africa. London, Edward Stanford; Cape Colony, Port Elizabeth, J.W.C.Mackay. pp. i-xxiv, 1-188.

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Brett, R. 1991. Are Kenya's rhinos recovering?. Really Rhinos 5 (1): 2.

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Duncan, P.M. 1890. Cassell's natural history. London, Cassell, Petter and Galpin: vol. 2, pp. i-xi,, 1-360.

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Clarke, J.E. 1969. Man is the prey: an investigation into the motives and habits of man's natural ancestors. London, Andre Deutsch: pp. 1-272.

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Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B. 1997. On a knife's edge. Cambridge, Traffic International: pp. 1-45.

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Bunbury, C.J.F. 1848. Journal of a residence at the Cape of Good Hope; with excursions into the interior, and notes on the natural history, and the native tribes. London, John Murray: pp. i-xii, 1-297.

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Wallace, A.R. 1876. The geographical distribution of animals, with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth’s surface. London, MacMillan and Co. vol. 1, pp. i-xxiv, 1-503; vol. 2, pp. i-xi, 1-607.

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Ward, Rowland; Lydekker, R. 1912. Note on remarkable rhinoceros horn. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 119 (3082), 1912 January 20: 144, fig. 1.

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Belyaeva, E.I. 1958. Sur le trouvaille de la dent d'Elasmotherium aux environs de Tachkent. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2 (2-3): 143-148.

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Garutt, N.V. 1999. Skull pathologies in Coelodonta antiquitatis: implications about social behaviour and ecology (in Haynes G., Klimowicz J. & Reumer J.W.F., eds: Proceedings of the First International Mammoth Conference “Mammoths and the Mammoth Fauna – Studied of an Extinct Ecosystem”, October 16-21 1995, Skt-Peterburg). Deinsea, Rotterdam; 6: 175-186, figs 1-9..

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White, J.C. 1909. Sikhim & Bhutan: twenty-one years on the North-East frontier 1887-1908. London, Edward Arnold: pp. i-xix, 1-332.

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Byushkov, B.P. 1955. Slepok tretichnogo nosoroga v bazal’tax Kolumbiyskogo Plato [A mould of a tertiary rhinoceros from basalts of the Kolumb Plateau]. Priroda, Izd-vo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva; 7: 111-112, 2 figs.

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