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Javan rhino

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Apart from the neck fold going right across, its skin looks more lizard-like than the Greater's. Books describe its skin as as 'mosaic-like'. It appears to completely lack the bumpy tubercules that give Greater its 'armour-plated' effect.

I would have liked to have been seen this animal while it was there....;)
 
Just fly back in time for a day at the Zoo- to see Javan Rhino, Quagga and maybe a Thylacine too...;)

London Zoo’s last quagga died before the Javan rhinoceros arrived, but somebody visiting London Zoo in the autumn of 1852 would have been able to see a quagga, a pair of thylacines and a Falkland Island wolf. Those were the days...........
 
...especially when you think they had Passenger Pigeons, Carolina Parrakeets & Pink-headed Ducks & kept two Sumatran Rhinos for respectable periods.
 
Could you list any of the above mouthwatering species in order of 'preference to see'...

Mine would have to be;
1. Thylacine
2. Quagga
3. Javan Rhino
3. Pink-headed Duck
4. Passenger Pigeon/ Carolina Parakeet.

I've been priveliged to see Sumatran rhino so I can discount them.

I've also seen skins of the Pink-headed Duck in the Bombay Museum- remarkable birds and still kept at Foxwarren Park in Surrey as late as the 1940s.
 
a Falkland Island wolf. Those were the days...........

A very strange animal-it looks rather like a Coyote with a bushy white-tipped tail. Isn't there a theory they were actually just a species of South American Fox (Cuon?) and were introduced, not native to the Falklands?
 

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