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Nine-banded armadillo By: Zoological Society of London From: Living Mammals of the World 1969

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Happy Coelacanth Saturday, everyone!

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You got any Red-tailed black cockatoos?

One of the best cockatoos!

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii), family Cacatuidae, order Psittaciformes, Australia

photograph by Jan Wegener

Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii), family Cacatuidae, Australia

photograph by David Luu

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii), family Cacatuidae, Australia

photograph by @_thr0ugh_my_eyes

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii), L - female, R - male, family Cacatuidae, order Psittaciformes, VIC, Australia

photograph by Adam Phillips (500px)

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Two-toed sloth with young By: San Diego Zoo From: Living Mammals of the World 1969

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A Sunda clouded leopard, referred to in the text as a "Clouded Tiger," from Joseph Wolf's Zoological Sketches v.1 (1861). Full text here.

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🐊 The American natural history;. New York, C. Scribner’s Sons, 1914.

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Charles Lyell – Scientist of the Day

Charles Lyell, a Scottish geologist, was born Nov 14, 1797. 

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Paca By: Zoological Society of London From: Living Mammals of the World 1969

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Got 200 pages of Trevenen Huxley's letters. Current takeaway from this is that we are ruled by Bird Guys.

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Penguins at the Bronx Zoo leaving the water, 1947.

Photo: John Albert via the Int'l Center of Photography

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This is enough of an academia blog now for me to say that I finished Mbembe's Necropolitics and now I'm debating what to read next. I have to return The Past if a Foreign Country Revisited to the library eventually, but We Are Amphibians and Freud and Foucault's entire repertoire seem more pressing.

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spider eye arrangements

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Bingo of bad naturalist takes you can fill out when someone's being stupid about wildlife

@cathartidae you asked to be tagged when i posted it well here it is :>

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Grab a hanky: here’s my collection of vintage crying animals.

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Vasily Vatagin (Russian/Soviet wildlife artist, 1883-1969), Opossum with its Babies, 1920. Oil on canvas? From the collection of the State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia. [via Google Arts & Culture]

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Capped langur By: Zoological Society of London From: Living Mammals of the World 1969

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Sketch of a kiwi bird from Philip Lutley Sclater's Guide to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London (1867).