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Various insects from #Mexico! #SciArt from Datos Para la Zoología Médica Mexicana: Arácnidos é Insectos (1893) by Jésus Sanchez. Contributed for digitization by Biblioteca Conjunta de Ciencias de la Tierra, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, @unam_mx to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51139812
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Explore flowers from different #plant classes designated by Linnaeus. #SciArt from Curso de Botanica Elemental: Parte Teorica (1841) by Miguel Bustamante. Contributed for digitization by Biblioteca Conjunta de Ciencias de la Tierra, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, @unam_mx to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49819997
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November marks #ManateeAwarenessMonth! West Indian Manatees (Trichechus manatus) live in shallow coastal areas where they feast on aquatic plants. Known by the nickname “sea cows”, they can graze for more than 5 hours a day. This photograph comes from ECOfronteras, Vol. 11, No. 30 (April 2007), a research magazine published by El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (@ecosurmx), a public research center attached to the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) of #Mexico. ECOSUR has contributed volumes from 2006 to 2017 of ECOfronteras to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary as part of our ongoing mission to promote #OpenAccess! View this illustration and more: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53434366
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We’re joining the #ArchivesPotluck with some delicious #grapes (Vitis vinifera) from The Illustrated Botany (1846-47) edited by John B. Newman, Contributed for digitization by the United States Geological Survey Libraries Program (@usgs) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39683240
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Happy #Feathursday! Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps cristatus) carry their babies on their backs while swimming and diving, helping to teach the chicks to swim and dive relatively quickly after hatching. This illustration was done by the famed French artist Roger Reboussin (1881-1965) in 1952 for the Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2nd Series, Tome 24 (Jan. 1952). Contributed for digitization in #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (@le_museum): https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54570322
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Devil Catfish (Bagarius bagarius), also known as the Indian Dwarf Goonch. #SciArt from Pieter Bleeker’s Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises, Tome 2 (1862). Contributed for digitization by the National Library Board of Singapore @nlbsg to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50176469
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The raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) for #MammalMonday! #SciArt by John Gerrard Keulemans for Dogs, Jackals, Wolves, and Foxes (1890) by St. George Jackson Mivart. Contributed for digitization by the @gersteinlibrary @uoftlibraries to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17003161
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Happy #Feathursday! Superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) from “Johann Lathams allgemeine Uebersicht der Vögel” Bd.4:t.1 (1811). German translation by Johann Matthäus Bechstein of John Latham’s “A General Synopsis of Birds.” Digitized for #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by @natural_history_museum Library: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54265874
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Newfoundlands (Canis lupus familiaris) for #WetnoseWednesday! With their webbed feet and water resistant outer coat, Newfs are strong working dogs bred for helping in the fishing industry, and they are also used for water rescues. #SciArt by Louis Agassiz Fuertes for Ernest Harold Baynes and Fuertes’ Book of Dogs: an intimate study of mankind’s best friend (c1919). Contributed for digitization by Smithsonian Libraries (@silibraries) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14994731
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Sunburst star turban (Astraea heliotropium) for #MolluskMonday! #SciArt from Bibliothèque Conchyliologique, Vol. 2 (1845) by Thomas Martyn, et al. Contributed for digitization by Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, @harvard to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12109134
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#Hummingbirds for #Feathursday! At an average weight of 2.2 g, the bumblebee hummingbird (Atthis heloisa) is one of the smallest birds in the world. Endemic to the Americas, it is predominantly found in #Mexico, but vagrant specimens have been found in the southwestern United States.
#SciArt by Marco Antonio Pineda Maldonado for “Colibríes de México y Norteamérica” (2014) by María del Coro Arizmendi Arriaga and Humberto Berlanga. Digitized in the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by CONABIO under CC-BY-NC-SA: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49524501
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Milonia obtusa for #Arachtober! #SciArt from “Malaysian spiders” (1896-1900) by Thomas Workman. Contributed to the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by @nlbsg: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47295743
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Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora) from the first published book on the birds of Singapore: “The Birds of Singapore Island” (1927), co-authored by John Alexander Strachey Bucknill and Frederick Nutter Chasen. #SciArt by Gerald Aylmer Levett-Yeats. Contributed to the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by @nlbsg: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47191465.
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Happy #FungiFriday! Phellinus nigricans. #SciArt by Émile Boudier for his Icones mycologicæ, ou Iconographie des champignons de France principalement Discomycetes, v. 1 (1905-10). Contributed for digitization by University Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (@uillinoislibrary) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33662193
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This King vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) is ready for takeoff on this #Feathursday! #SciArt by Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert for Richard Lydekker, Wild Life of the World, Vol. 2 (1916). Contributed for digitization by the Gerstein Science Information Centre (@gersteinlibrary), University of Toronto Libraries (@uoftlibraries) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21739111
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Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and European squid (Loligo vulgaris) for #CephalopodAwarenessDays! #Cuttlefish have excellent camouflage. They can change their coloring rapidly to match their environment. European #Squid live from sea level to depths of 500 m. They migrate to inshore waters to spawn, where females can lay up to 20,000 eggs. #SciArt from Tintenfische; mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Sepia und Octopus (1913) by Werner Meyer. Contributed for digitization by Smithsonian Libraries (@silibraries) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12668599
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