Male born in Kathmandu. When 3 days old, it was distinguished in exterior character from its mother by a bright pink suffusion which pervaded its hide, and by the absence of the nasal horn. When a month old, he found the pink tinge gradually subsiding into an uniform dark colour, whilst the incipient horn was beginning to raise the frontal skin.
length of head 2 ft 4 inches, one born in Kathmandu after 9 years
Male born in Kathmandu. When 3 days old, it was distinguished in exterior character from its mother by a bright pink suffusion which pervaded its hide, and by the absence of the nasal horn. When a month old, he found the pink tinge gradually subsiding into an uniform dark colour, whilst the incipient horn was beginning to raise the frontal skin.
The gestation of the rhinoceros was supposed by Buffon not to exceed 9 months and its corresponding life not to pass that of man, and this remark has been repeated by Desmarest.
Hodgson observed the habits of a male and female rhinoceros kept in the Menagerie of the Raja of Nipal. He states that about 18 months prior to May 1824 a male and female voluntarily associated and that the result after an interval from 17 to 18 months was a fine male cub. Hodgson first saw the animal when 3 days old.
