The author also has a page with text descriptions for various animals in a similar vein: https://www.uliwestphal.de/retrozoology/index.html https://www.uliwestp

The author also has a page with text descriptions for various animals in a similar vein: https://www.uliwestphal.de/retrozoology/index.html https://www.uliwestphal.de/retrozoology/index.html > The octopus as a rule does not live the year out. It has a natural tendency to run off into liquid; for, if beaten and squeezed, it keeps losing substance and at last disappears. Well, can't say that I won't do about the same if beaten and squeezed. Also, another animal with plenty of wild depictions is the tiger. East-Asian paintings especially walk between hilarious and cool, and it's often clear that the artists didn't particularly want to see a real tiger close. Itō Jakuchū: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/14/63/f8/1463f891232e00f9165d05809828138a.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/14/63/f8/1463f891232e00f9165d05809... Marked as ‘Meiji’, so fairly recent, but I like it: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9e/d1/6a/9ed16aad46e17fcbe521d68e0f67edec--tiger-art-tiger-tiger.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9e/d1/6a/9ed16aad46e17fcbe521d68e0...