Antique Prints

[den]

It's interesting seeing old prints of common animals. It's obvious the print maker didn't see the animals, he'd only had them described to him.

Greater Glider, Koala, and a pair of wombats playing with their litter.

Platypus, Echidna (with the back feet on backwards) and ... an armadillo? Damn those colonials! Can't they keep their bizzare animals in one place?

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

You'd probably appreciate that the armadillo is officially called a "pink fairy". ];-)

It really looks like that. (http://www.cricyt.edu.ar/INSTITUTOS/iadiza/ojeda/Edentados/pichi%20foto.jpg)

It has a very unusual "hatch-shaped" armored tail, and lives in South America. (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/Grzimek_mammals/Dasypodidae/Chlamyphorus_truncatus.jpg/medium.jpg&imgrefurl=http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/Grzimek_mammals/Dasypodidae/Chlamyphorus_truncatus.jpg/view.html&h=240&w=477&sz=19&hl=en&start=11&um=1&tbnid=smLeqmLjhAeJLM:&tbnh=65&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522pink%2Bfairy%2522%2Barmadillo%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG)

And probably needs someone to properly represent it with the wings and miniskirt...

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