Predators Collection

Eagle Owl - with prey - forest glade of Ural Mountains (Bubo bubo). Russia - winter snow

Undertakers regaling themselves at Death's Door, Battersea Rise, Surrey -- a satirical scene in the style of Hogarth, with lines from a serious long poem, The Grave

MIGRANT SETTLERS ATTACKD
Settlers migrating to the west are attacked by Native Americans : the wagons are formed into a tight cluster round which the predators circle. Date: 1876

Komodo Dragon - X3 Eating
KOMODO DRAGON - X3 EATING (Varanus komodoensis)

Philippine Tarsier with a butterfly (Tarsius syrichta). in undergrowth of a dense secondary tropical rainforest near PTFI (Philippine Tarsier Foundation Incorporated)

Fox chasing rabbits
A fox chases a colony of rabbits through the snow and brings one down

Wounded Buffalo C1830
A horrid spectacle : a buffalo stands, fatally wounded by the spears of its human predators. Date: circa 1830

European / Praying Mantis - hides in long grasses (Mantis religiosa). near river Ural - Orenburg region - July

Ermine with prey (lemming) in abandoned winter hut (a typical habitat for ermines) (Mustela erminea). near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Typical species along the Kara Sea coast. Summer, August

Bengal / Indian TIGER - close-up, snarling, in reeds. Camouflaged, facing camera (Panthera tigris). India

ASIATIC BLACK BEAR - chewing bark (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

Lion - female - Lioness (Panthera leo). Kenya

Clouded LEOPARD - snarling (Neofelis nebulosa). Distribution: Nepal - South China. Sumatra, Borneo and Taiwan

Moor FROG - watching beetle (Donacia sp), (Rana arvalis Nilsson). Russia

Pug Peter -- vultures, dog and rabbit
Pug Peter -- The Vultures smiled disagreeably. A dog comforts a rabbit in the face of four predators. Date: 1905

Blaise Blesses Deer
Deer are very attracted to Saint Blaise, bishop of Sebaste : when he comes near they gather round, asking him to bless them as this protects them from predators. Date: circa 300

Prehistoric landscape with various creatures
A prehistoric landscape with various creatures in the air, on land, and in the water. 19th century

Papilio Demadocus
PAPILIO DEMODOCUS the eye markings are a deterrent to predators. Date: mid 19th century ?

Eat More Fish by de Rosa
Humorous illustration showing a gentleman relaxing as he bobs in the sea using a rubber ring, reading in his newspaper about eating more fish

Restored figure of the Iguanodon
The Iguanodon, a large herbivore, which could grow up to 10 metres. It had numerous teeth enabling it to chew vegetation. Its powerful hind legs were ideal for escaping predators

Italian Recruit
The King of Italy seeks to rally his subjects to the war but they are reluctant to join the predators... Date: June 1915

Malaca Porcupine
Though less picturesque than the common variety, this rodent quadruped of the hystericidae family knows how to defend itself from its predators

Ethiopian Monkeys
Travelers in Ethiopia come back with highly coloured accounts of the APES of that region, their lifestyle, their food and how they defend themselves from predators

Orang-Utan and Natives
An orang-utan defends itself against two hostile predators

Bewick / Skunk
(Mephitis mephitis) This mustelid inhabits north and south America, and is famed for the awful-smelling liquid it projects at predators from ducts at its rear end

Bewick / Tapir
(tapirus terrestris) This is the South American Tapir, classified by Linnaeus as a hippopotamus : it avoids its predators by diving into water

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