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George Mottershead opened the Chester Zoo in 1931, the first “zoo without bars” in England. In 1953 their first black female rhinoceros arrived at the zoo and died the same year. The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was on 2 June 1953. In 1961 a stamp was issued in the British Protectorate of North Borneo … Read more 39

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Engraving illustration of the taxidermied Versailles rhino by Nicolas Mare´chal, published by naturalist George Cuvier in 1801. Cuvier is best known for his work on comparative anatomy, but also for his studies that supported scientific racism. In 1810 Sara Baartman was taken from South Africa to England by Hendrik Cezar and William Dunlop, where she … Read more 36

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African big game hunting became popular in Europe from the mid 1800s, particularly after Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming returned to Britain with 30 tons of animal trophies, and opened his collection to the public. The image of the heroic, white male hunter coincided with the development of photography, and thus the romantic notion of hunting in Africa, for the … Read more 42

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The Dutch presence in India lasted from 1605 to 1825. In 1740, Douwe Mout van der Meer brought Clara, the Indian rhinoceros, on a seven-month sea voyage from Calcutta to Rotterdam. She had audiences with King Frederick II of Prussia and King Louis XV of France and died in 1758 in London after touring most … Read more 34

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The sculpture, Rhinocéros was produced in 1878 by Henri Alfred Jacquemart to coincide with the Paris World Fair in the same year. It was initially displayed at the Trocadéro Palace and is currently housed outside the Musee d’Orsay. In 19th century Europe and America racial typology developed as a science of measurement and difference that … Read more 33