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Oppel, A. 1897. Schlund und Darm Lehrbuch der vergleichenden mikroskopischen Anatomie der Wirbeltiere, vol. 2). Jena, Gustav Fischer. pp. i-viii, 1-682.

Schlund und Darm Lehrbuch der vergleichenden mikroskopischen Anatomie der Wirbeltiere, vol. 2)

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In the rhinoceros, the appendix is 2 feet long 1 ? feet wide (Cuvier 1810).

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Location World Subject Anatomy Species All Rhino Species

The caecum is well developed in the rhinoceros. In a male it was 3 feet long and in a female 2 feet.

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