Scientific Illustration

rhamphotheca:

Antilopina (Antelopes), plate 100, Kunstformen der Natur (1904) by Ernst Haeckel

1: Four-horned Antelope
2: Black Wildebeest
3: Sitatunga
4: Pronghorn
5: Waterbuck
6: Sable Antelope
7: Addax
8: Greater Kudu
9: Bushbuck

(right to left each row)

Tagged: antelope gnu sitatunga pronghorn waterbuck addax kudu bushbuck Ernst Haekel ungulate mammal africa north america india

Posted on January 24, 2012 via fauna with 214 notes
n449_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

1. The gemsbok (Oryx gazella)

2. The East African Oryx (Oryx beisa)

3. Fringe-eared Oryx (Oryx beisa callotis)

4. The Addax (Addax nasomaculatus)

Tagged: Africa Game and game-birds Mammals Field Museum Library Oryx gemsbok Oryx gazella East African Oryx Oryx beisa Fringe-eared Oryx Oryx beisa Fringe-eared Oryx Oryx beisa callotis Addax Addax nasomaculatus antelope Artiodactyla mammal Bovidae Hippotraginae

Posted on January 13, 2012 with 154 notes