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Identification of an unicorn?

Published Saturday 1 April 2006, updated Thursday 2 April 2009, by Michel Coutureau

A friend of mine walking in Niger desert sent me this picture for identification. Whith which animal are we dealing ? It is one of these anomalies of nature that have created the myth of unicorne ?

E. Nicure

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Identification of an unicorn?
11 January 2010, by Katherine Moore

This is clearly a camel! I can’t see what element is extending from the nasals, though.

Katherine Moore Zooarchaeology Laboratory University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology U.S.A.

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