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Rhinoceros bicornalis

Rhinoceros bicornalis,  Image number:SIL28-310-01
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  From:
On the Rhinoceroses now or lately living in the Society’s Menagerie

Phillip Lutley Sclater 1829-1913
[London], [Zoological Society], [1876?].

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This illustration, drawn from life, shows a rhinoceros from what is now Sudan. It lived in the menagerie of the Zoological Society of London, the first living African rhino in Europe since the days of the Roman empire.
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