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Paul Pfurtscheller. Anatomy of the Honey Bee

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Life size model Cow

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Model of Physalia arethusa [Blaschka]

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Animal Sounds

In different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? Below is the world’s biggest multilingual list. A guiding principle behind this list is to visualise a comic book, in your language, and imagine what would be written in the text balloon coming from the mouth of an animal. For languages that use a different alphabet, I have tried to transliterate the word into the English alphabet for ease of comparison. A forward slash is used to separate alternative words.

ushishir:

Sound made by a Chimpanzee associated with food

From: ‘Chimpanzee intelligence and its vocal expressions’ by Robert M. Yerkes and Blanche W. Learned. Published 1925

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Micrographia: or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon. by Robert Hooke, 1665

Of the Shepherd Spider, or long legg’d spider

The Carter , Shepherd Spider, or long legg’d spider, has, for two particularities, very few similar creatures I have met with; the first, which is discoverable onely by the Microscope, and is in the first and second figures of the 31 scheme, plainly descrid’d, in the curious contrivance of his eyes, of which (differing from most other Spiders) he has onely two, and those plac’d upon the top of this pillar (which is about the heighth of one of the transverse Diameters of the eye, and look’d on in other posture, appear’d much of the shape,B C D ) The two eyes, B B, were placed back to back, with the transparent parts, or the pupils, looking towards either side, but somewhat more forward then backwards C was the column or neck on which the stood, and S the crown of the head out of which that neck sprung.

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Micrographia: or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon. by Robert Hooke, 1665

Of a blue Fly

This kind of fly, where of a ‘Microscopical Picture’ is delineated in this first Figure of the ‘26. Scheme’, is a very beautiful creature, and has many things about it very notable; divers of which I have already partly describ’d namely, the feet, wings, eyes, and head, in the preceding Observation.

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Micrographia: or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon. by Robert Hooke, 1665

Micrographia is the illustrated account of Robert Hooke’s exploration of the minute through the magnification of his compound microscope. Here with his own skillfully drafted plates are Hooke’s vivid descriptions of such diverse objects as seeds, hair, lice, the sparks coming from flint struck against steel, as well as, with his lens turned outward, the stars and the surface of the Moon. Micrographia inspired ensuing scientific inquiry, including discordant responses to Hooke’s controversial hypotheses.

Of the Eyes and Head of a Grey drone-Fly, and of several other creatures.

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Drawing of a flea, 1665

From: Micrographia By: Robert Hooke and Robert Hooke
Published: J. Martyn & AllestryLondon,1665
facing page 210scheme XXXIV Size: (fol.)
Collection: Rare Books

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The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals : and an introduction to comparative anatomy (Vol. 2) (1834)

Author: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832; Latreille, P. A. (Pierre André), 1762-1833; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subject: Zoology
Publisher: London, G. Henderson
Year: 1834

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