julianhuxley

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I finally finished my thesis but now I have this subscription to the British Newspaper Archive and no time to look anything up at all. I need to post animals!!

#memos from the secretary #or else you might get every thesis meme i made this semester

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African buffalo By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

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Flip Through More than 5,000 Pages of This Sprawling 19th-Century Atlas of Natural History

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Brown bear raiding a potato field near Saint Petersburg By: Egon Freiherr von Kapherr From: Lebensbilder aus der Tierwelt 1908

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London Zoo new vulture chick save me

#FRESH BABES AT THE ZSL??? #zsl #vultures

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Charles van den Eycken (1859-1923) "Portrait of a Dog" (1910) "Portrait of a Dog" (1910) Oil on canvas

#animals in art

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Henry Stacy Marks, A Select Committee (1891)

#parrot #parrots #victorian art #paintings #visual arts #oil paintings #macaws #cockatoos #victorian #1800s art #animals in art #psittaciformes #was just chuffed to see this guys work! #ive never seen it before #another guy who studied birds at the london zoo no less

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Coyote in a den By: Jonathan T. Wright From: Wildlife of the Deserts 1980

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Topi antelopes By: R. Hoier From: Congo Eden 1950

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I don't know what's funnier, some random fellow of the ZSL in the 1800s saying he wanted some lion testicles after the lion died or the fact that the ZSL gave him just the one.

#memos from the secretary

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For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘:

Amrita Sher-Gil (Hungarian-Indian, 1913-1941)

Two Elephants, 1940

Oil on Canvas, 46cm X 54.3cm

National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India

#animals in art

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Marco Polo's Sheep by Winifred Austen. From Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. Two. Written by Frank Finn, published in 1909.

Internet Archive

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Eadweard J. Muybridge ca 1884 - 1887

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Grampuses by Louis A. Sargent. From Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. Two. Written by Frank Finn, published in 1909.

Internet Archive

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This is probably the worst picture of Julian to ever exist. I don't think he's particularly photogenic in general but I don't know what possessed him to go in for the "Weird Uncle" pose on that poor gorilla (her name is Meng).

#julian huxley #memos from the secretary #i forgot the source oh well

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Alitalia travel ad 1977

#advertisement #sooooo much to unpack from this advert omgggg

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African Elephant Habitat - Inside

Photo taken at Zoo Dresden

#zoos