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Catalogue number : 394830

Sex: appears to be female; two large nipples present, vulva skin forming hump

Locality: -

Date of acquisition: 1889

History of mount: re-mounted by Edw. Gerrard before 1889

Measurements:

head - body 2,37 m
tail 0,37 m
ear 0,18 m
hindfoot, left 0,48 m
hindfoot, right 0,47 m
shoulder height 1,19 m

State of preservation: good

Further material of same individual: skeleton was mounted at Amsterdam in 1855- now lost (Tuijn 1966)

References: Sclater (1901); Pocock (1904); Ridgeway (1909); Griffini (1913); Antonius (1931); Tuijn (1966)