#LockdownBestiary

Megan Gallagher

Shall we begin with P is for PORCUPINE on today's @LockdownBestia1? This particular beastie comes from @sandiegozoo. First things first. A porcupine is a quill-pig (@OED). #LockdownBestiary Pliny recounted that

Today at #LockdownBestiary, X is for X-rated. I cannot otherwise than offer up the final paragraph of Browne's chapter 'Of Hares' in Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It introduces the words 'retromingency'

Y is for YAK at the #lockdownbestiary @LockdownBestia1.George Stubbs (1724-1806) is best known for painting horses, like this one, Whistlejacket. #notayak #HisforHorse #notsointeresting 1/14 But here he is in 1791

Henrike Lähnemann 📯

Welcome to today’s #LockdownBestiary which for L focusses on LAMB as signature animal for this time of year: #Passover , spring (#lambing) and #HolyWeek. To start: a literally locked down

good morning! #LockdownBestiary #NotALion Good Friday’s #LockdownBestiary animal is the #NotALion https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.276.107.b hope you enjoy! #LockdownBestiary #NotALion https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f34.item oh

Jeroen Vandommele

1/ It's Monday and we continue our abecedary of early modern animals in #lockdownbestiary with the J for #Jellyfish. In the Visboeck of Adriaen Coenen (1579), jellyfish are one of

Its luxurious Tuesday, as L is for lobster in #LockDownBestiary @LockdownBestia1 1– An emblem of a lobster looking (waving?) at the sun. The inscriptio reads “well planned, badly executed” and

Adriana X Jacobs

My contribution to #lockdownbestiary: R is for...HARE. Yes, I know that hares are not rabbits, but I have more to say about hares, so here we go. @LockdownBestia1 @eparpillee @manymanyplies

The Monster Files: Dr Surekha Davies

It’s #LockdownBestiary #unicorn day! Unicorns (animal w/ a horn) are real & many! Some even have several horns. How many unicorn types were there & did horns have special qualities?

Katherine Ibbett

Today @LockdownBestia1 #LockdownBestiary, S is for SHEEP. (Is the whole bestiary an excuse for me to do this? maybe.) We all know what sheep can signify in early modern Europe!

T is for poor old Toad in today’s #LockdownBestiary (aka ‘Paddock’, ‘Crapaud’). Warty, crawling, despised beast, spitting and pissing venom. Classified by Linnaeus with amphibians, ‘foul and loathsome’ animals. The

Today, at the #LockdownBestiary, P is for PARROT. This gives this zookeeper an opportunity to revisit interests in parrot language, multilingualism, and the pleasures of nonsense. Or, as I like

Kristof Smeyers

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Good morning #LockdownBestiary lovers! In today’s edition J is for jellyfish. Jellyfish are not jelly and they are not fish. They have no bones, no blood, no heart, no brain.