Animal Art of the Day for #WorldJellyfishDay: Ernst Haeckel's Medusae
Images of plates 8, 16, 18, 26, 28, 36, 38, 46, 48, 78, 88, 98 via Internet Archive. Digital scan of the entire book including text available via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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Today is #GroundhogDay (US), #MarmotDay (Alaska), and #HedgehogDay (Europe), so here is one of each!
1 Groundhog (Marmota monax)
Woodchuck - Arctomys monax* E.K. / L. Prang & Co., 1874 1 print : color lithograph ; sheet 35 x 27.3 cm. Library of Congress *same species; alternate common name and older scientific name
2 Hoary Marmot (Marmota caligata)
HOARY MARMOT, or WHISTLER / Marmota caligata p. 535 in Wild animals of North America, intimate studies of big and little creatures of the mammal kingdom by Edward William Nelson, 1918; illustration by Louis Agassiz Fuertes Biodiversity Heritage Library
3 European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
Hedgehog and Young Plate I in British land mammals and their habits by Alexander Nicol Simpson, 1911; illustration by C. F. Newall Internet Archive
