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Catalogue number : ZMA 522

Sex: female

Locality:

Date of acquisition: 1883

Remarks on acquisition: animal lived at Amsterdam Zoo, 9 May 1867 - 12 August 1883

History of mount: original mount by Inspector Kerz (Hilzheimer 1912: 91 )

Measurements:

  • head - body 2,28 m
  • tail 0,46 m
  • ear 0,16 m
  • hindfoot 0,46 m
  • shoulder height 1,20 m

State of preservation: very good

Further material of same individual: skull in collection. It appears from Hilzheimer (1912: 98) that the foot bones of this specimen were at Stuttgart but they are no longer there, nor is there any record of them.

References: Lydekker (1904); Renshaw (1904); Ridgeway (1909); Hilzheimer (1912); Griffini (1913); Antonius (1931); Van Bruggen (1959)

 

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