Creature Collection (page 14)

Alexander & Monsters 3
Creatures encountered by Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, during his invasion of Asia 3 of 7 Date: circa 330 BC

Bigorne / Eats Husband
The bigorne is a sexist creature which eats men who do as their wives tell them; though no longer politically correct, it may not be extinct

Birds Operate
Birds perform a medical operation on an unidentifiable creature

Huge Hippo and People
An extraordinary depiction of a hippopotamus savaging hunters in an exotic landscape - it is the size of an elephant, and seems more a creature of land than water

Noah Builds the Ark
Having received a flood warning from God, Noah sets about the construction of an Ark in which he, and two of every living creature, can survive

Bird and Predator
Nature red in tooth and claw - a stoat-like creature has got its teeth into a guinea fowl or some such bird : predator and prey fall together from a tree

Exorcist Expels Demon
An exorcist (Jesus) successfully drives a demon from the body of its victim - you can see the nasty creature taking flight as it emerges from its involuntary host

Greyhound & Hare
Unlike its descendants who are compelled to pursue an electric hare, this elegant creature has chased and caught a living prey

Marmot (Bewick) - 3
mus lemmus - the LAPLAND MARMOT is better known as the LEMMING, a creature given to mass migrations of which Bewick gives a graphic account

Mongoose (Bewick)
The lower creature is the lemur mongooz : the upper the TAILLESS MACAUCO - lemur tardigradus - who spends its life envying the mongoose its tail : both live in India

Caracal (Bewick)
felis caracal Found in Asia and Africa : this may be the creature named the lynx by classical writers

Goat (Bewick)
capra hircus COMMON GOAT A lively, playful, and capricious creature (did Bewick intend the pun ?) and a very useful one

Springbok (Bewick)
Moschus moschiferus Bewick was puzzled as to what species this creature is, but it is now recognised as a kind of deer. It is famed for the perfume it produces

Musk-Deer (Bewick)
Moschus moschiferus Bewick was puzzled as to what species this creature is, but it is now recognised as a kind of deer. It is famed for the perfume it produces

Black Bear (Bewick)
Bewick is puzzled by this creature, drawn from life, which he supposes to be a bear: it was brought back from Bengal, and appears to be a gentle, good-natured animal

Bulldog (Bewick)
is the fiercest of all the Dog kind, and is probably the most courageous creature in the world - so says Bewick

Valhalla Serpent
Marine creature observed by naturalist M J Nicoll from the Valhalla off Pava

Don Sea Serpent
This impressive creature was seen by several aboard the Royal Mail steamer Don in the Atlantic, and sketched by a witness

Gosse Serpent Theory
Naturalist Philip Henry Gosse suggests that the reports of sea serpents could relate to an Enaliosaur, a supposedly extinct sea creature

British Banner Serpent
Marine creature sighted from the British Banner; the Master reported that the creature shook the bowsprit with its mouth and seemed about 100 metres long

Sea Serpent Greenland
Spouting sea-creature sighted by Hans Egede off the coast of Greenland

Animals and homo sapiens at the time of the Flood
Cave-dwellers dispute possession of a cave with an evicted bear, while buffalo and other creatures roam Date: circa 5000 BC

Troll, pet frog, and two long-tailed creatures
A troll with his pet frog meets two long-tailed creatures

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