. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . Mead of White Front Horns of White Rhinoceros. From specimens in the Collection of the late Roualeyn Gordon Gumming, in thepossession of Gol. W. Gordon Gumming. 472 WHITE RHINOCEROS 473 The WHITE or BURCHELLS RHINOCEROS (Rhinoceros [Diceros] simus).Khartyt, Sudani. Vit Rhinaster, Cape Dutch. Next to the Indian elephant this is the largest mammal that hastrodden the earth in modern times. Its huge bulk, the bluntly truncatemuzzle, which has no prehensile tip, the gr
. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . Mead of White Front Horns of White Rhinoceros. From specimens in the Collection of the late Roualeyn Gordon Gumming, in thepossession of Gol. W. Gordon Gumming. 472 WHITE RHINOCEROS 473 The WHITE or BURCHELLS RHINOCEROS (Rhinoceros [Diceros] simus).Khartyt, Sudani. Vit Rhinaster, Cape Dutch. Next to the Indian elephant this is the largest mammal that hastrodden the earth in modern times. Its huge bulk, the bluntly truncatemuzzle, which has no prehensile tip, the great length of the skull, andthe enormous front horn, with its expanded base, form the most strikingexternal characteristics of this species. The cheek-teeth are of adifferent type of structure from those of the preceding species, being, infact, adapted for chewing grass. In walking, the animal carries itshead low, so that in examples in which the front horn bends forward,its tip becomes worn by being pushed along the ground. It is some-what difficult to surmise the reason for the application of the namewhite rhinoceros to this species. Di
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