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Human behavior - Animal models

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Human behavior
Animal models in research
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Images about Human behavior - Animal models

156 images from works
  • A male frog, playing a guitar, serenading a female seated on a mushroom. Photograph by J.P. Soule, 1876, after a drawing.
  • A fox, sitting on a tree trunk, is enticing a bear to poke its head in the hollow of the trunk, so as to trap the bear's head. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
  • A monkey physician examining a cat patient for fleas. Coloured lithograph.
  • A male and female frog promenading. Photograph by J.P. Soule, ca. 1876, after a drawing.
  • Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.
  • Heads of leopards, lions, and a sheep. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Interior of a dentist's surgery with animal participants. Reproduction of a coloured wood engraving.
  • A bat and three fully dressed birds flying by moonlight. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • A monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Process print after J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Human physiognomies next to animal physiognomies, showing the relations between certain of the species. Etching, c. 1820, after C. Le Brun.

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    The evolution of a fox riding a goose into a writer seated at his typewriter (or a pianist?) - which in turn evolves into accordion, bellows, money-bag, and handcuffs; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.

    Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867. | Date: 1863 | Reference: 12101i
    Part of: The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin
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    Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

    Bristow, Edmund, 1787-1876. | Date: 1 February 1828 | Reference: 16677i
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    A fox, a monkey and a badger are deliberating directions at a crossing. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.

    Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899. | Date: 1853 | Reference: 39615i
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    A barber about to shave an unwilling client with anthropomorphic participants. Reproduction of a coloured lithograph by Y.G.

    Y. G. | Reference: 11748i
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    Two demonic physiognomies, expressive of malignity. Drawing, c. 1789.

    | Date: c. 1789 | Reference: 29009i

Related topics

Head
Physiognomy
Face
Physiology, Comparative
Monkeys
Characters and characteristics
Animals
Anthropomorphism
Foxes
Cats

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