WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
He afterwards wrote : — “ This animal arrived in the 
Gardens in 1850. It was then supposed she was about one 
year old, so that would make her about twenty-four years 
old when she died, and the fact that an Indian animal 
accustomed to a hot climate should live in the Kegent’s 
Park such a length of time does infinite credit to the 
management. Her gigantic carcass was placed on boards 
on rollers, and it took twenty-five men to roll it to the 
dissecting-house in the Gardens. The measurements of 
the great beast were : — Total length from tip of nose to 
tip of tail, 12 ft. 4 in. ; circumference at widest part, 12 ft.; 
the weight was probably between two and three tons. 
By means of pulleys the huge and ponderous skin was 
hauled up while Mr. Gerrard separated it from the flesh. 
The skin was of great thickness, in some places from 
2 in. to 3 in. 
“ This is the same rhinoceros whose horn was amputated 
by the Superintendent some time since, the weight of the 
piece weighing 11 lbs.” 
Mr. Buckland wrote in Land and Water, vol. x. p. 484, 
from information I gave him, an account of the strange 
ice accident to the rhinoceros : 
“ The animal had been turned out that morning as 
usual into the paddock behind the elephant-house while 
the dens were being cleaned. The snow had fallen thickly 
during the night, so that the pond was not to be dis- 
tinguished from the ground. The rhinoceros not seeing 
the pond put her fore-feet on the ice, which immediately 
gave way, and in she went head over heels with a crash. 
The keepers ran for Mr. Bartlett, the resident superin- 
tendent ; when he came (in a few minutes) he found the 
poor rhinoceros was floundering about among great sheets 
of ice, under which she had probably been kept down till 
her great strength enabled her to break up the whole 
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