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Four-legged animals such as dogs sometimes lose limbs and become artificially tripedal. There are some three-legged creatures in the world today, namely four-legged animals (such as pet dogs and cats) which have had one limb amputated. With proper medical treatment most of these injured animals can go on to live fairly normal lives, despite ...
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In the History of Animals, Aristotle sets out to investigate the existing facts (Greek "hoti", what), prior to establishing their causes (Greek "dioti", why). [1] [3] The book is thus a defence of his method of investigating zoology. Aristotle investigates four types of differences between animals: differences in particular body parts (Books I ...
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal is a 1967 book by English zoologist and ethologist Desmond Morris that looks at humans as a species and compares them to other animals. The Human Zoo , a follow-up book by Morris that examined the behaviour of people in cities, was published in 1969.
Hunting dogs, Book 1. The Historia animalium was Gessner's magnum opus, and was the most widely read of all the Renaissance natural histories.The generously illustrated work was so popular that Gessner's abridgement, Thierbuch ("Animal Book"), was published in Zurich in 1563, and in England Edward Topsell translated and condensed it as a Historie of foure-footed beastes (London: William ...
On the other hand, the animals are led by the bee (al-naḥl, king of insects); the griffin or anqa (al-ʿanqāʾ, king of predatory birds); the lion (al-asad, king of predatory land animals); the simurgh (al-shāhmurgh, king of birds); the sea serpent (al-tinnīn, king of aquatic animals); the snake (al-thuʿbān, king of animals that crawl on ...
[3] Two illuminated Psalters, the Queen Mary Psalter (British Library Ms. Royal 2B, vii) and the Isabella Psalter (State Library, Munich), contain full Bestiary cycles. The bestiary in the Queen Mary Psalter is found in the "marginal" decorations that occupy about the bottom quarter of the page, and are unusually extensive and coherent in this ...
The treaty consists of four books whose authenticity has not been questioned, although its chronology is disputed. The consensus in placing it before the Generation of animals and perhaps later to History of animals. There are indications that Aristotle placed this book at the beginning of his biological works. [1]