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Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- University of Illinois Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Brehms Tierleben, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Brehm, Alfred Edmund
- Publisher:
- Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1900
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
An adult porcupine and three juveniles are about to feast on roots.
Old World porcupines can be any species of rodents in the family Hystricidae. They are characterized by the thick spines which cover their bodies.
The caption reads in the original German: Stachelschwein.
Keywords: 1900s, 20th century, Brehms Tierleben, color, Hystricidae, mammal, reference book, rodent
