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🦈 The Plagiostomia: Sharks, skates, and rays
Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1913.

Alopias vulpinus (Thresher shark) & Ginglymostoma cirratum (Nurse shark) in Look @ those teeth! http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4371381

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🐾 General zoology, or Systematic natural history. v.1. pt. 2.
London, Printed for G. Kearsley, 1800-1826.

The 's intelligence is on par w/ some primate species!C our n & @eol biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1

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🎣 Kunstformen der Natur
Leipzig und Wien: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1904.

Jellyfish have roamed the seas for about 500 million years! See a stunning illustration of our in biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3

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🐫 Field book of insects
New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1918.

The Oblong-Winged Katydid can be either green (most common), pink or orange/tan (rarest). We love this pink 1 in biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1

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πŸ›‘ The quadrupeds of North America,.
New York, V.G. Audubon, 1851-54.

The called azotochtli, meaning "turtle-rabbit." See them in & @eol biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3

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🐊 Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature. v.1
Paris, 1833-[1840]

An bite has 2, 125 lbs of force, equal 2 the weight of a small pick-up truck! C our in biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3

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🦷 The Plagiostomia: Sharks, skates, and rays
Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1913.

Alopias vulpinus (Thresher shark) & Ginglymostoma cirratum (Nurse shark) in Look @ those teeth! http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4371381

#bhlib #sharkweek

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πŸ” One egg from our can weigh as much as 2 dozen chicken eggs. See the ostrich in illustrated glory in

The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals: and an introduction to comparative anatomy, v. 1, plates (1837), by Baron Cuvier. pl. 18http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28110931

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😸 Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes
London R.H. Porter 1890

2day's r genetically a "dog soup," part coyote/domestic dog/gray wolf. C in & @eol biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1

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😸 Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes
London R.H. Porter 1890

The gray wolf is the largest member of the Canidae family. See it in & @eol biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1

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πŸ•· The naturalists' miscellany: .
London: Printed for Nodder co, 1789.

Tho Pinktoe Tarantula said 2 be communal, housing in groups in captivity almost always leads to cannibalism http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40297103

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πŸ¦† Brehm's Life of animals: Volume 1, Mammalia
Chicago: Marquis, 1895.

Why did the zebra get his stripes? See the wilder side of the zebra in biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9

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πŸ¦† Brehm's Life of animals: Volume 1, Mammalia
Chicago: Marquis, 1895.

Why did the zebra get his stripes? See the wilder side of the zebra in biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9

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🦷 Studi comparativi sui pesci fossili coi viventi dei generi Carcharodon, Oxyrhina e Galeocerdo /.
Pisa: T. Nistri, 1881.

My, what big teeth you have! See a Great White in , complete w/ ! biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1

#shark #jaw #bone #bhlib #teeth

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🐘 Today's features the endangered Tapirus terrestris in honor of @worldtapirday

Bolivian park possibly Earth's most biologically diverse place See park's largest animal in biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5

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🦷 The Plagiostomia: Sharks, skates, and rays
Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1913.

Alopias vulpinus (Thresher shark) & Ginglymostoma cirratum (Nurse shark) in Look @ those teeth! http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4371381

#bhlib #sharkweek

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🐴 Wild animals of North America
Washington, D.C., The National geographical society[c1918]

The name most likely comes from the Old Norse hrossvalr, meaning "horse-whale." See it in biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9

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🐳 Orcas have a new way of hunting More on Orcas in The Book of Whales in http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/slideshow-killer-whales-devise-l.html?ref=hp&sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4d9bd8ae2f72a172,0

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😸 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965.

Up close & personal with a bill. Nice! http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37028049

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🦝 Tenants of the trees /.
Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1907.

Raccoons r known 4 intelligence, remembering task solutions 4 up to 3 yrs. C them in & @eol biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6

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