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  • There's NO excuse / PETA.
  • There's NO excuse / PETA.
  • A gang of hunters pretend to wash their eyes with a slimy substance, thus fooling the monkeys, who 'ape' them and blind themselves, allowing the hunters to move in. Line engraving by J. Collaert after J. van der Straet, c. 1610.
  • House mice devouring a large cheese placed on the floor next to their hole. Etching by Hicks, 1888.
  • Native Indians catching wild elephants by snaring their feet with ropes. Engraving by T Medland, ca 1800, after S Bey.
  • An appeal to housewives : demand humanely killed rabbits : don't buy them caught like this / Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
  • A fox in agony with its paw caught in a trap. Wood engraving by J Bateman.

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    House mice devouring a large cheese placed on the floor next to their hole. Etching by Hicks, 1888.

    | Hicks, active 1888. | Date: 1 Aug 1889 | Reference: 39913i
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    An appeal to housewives : demand humanely killed rabbits : don't buy them caught like this / Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

    | Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
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    Native Indians catching wild elephants by snaring their feet with ropes. Engraving by T Medland, ca 1800, after S Bey.

    | Bey, Singey. | Date: 21 April 1800 | Reference: 39839i
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    A gang of hunters pretend to wash their eyes with a slimy substance, thus fooling the monkeys, who 'ape' them and blind themselves, allowing the hunters to move in. Line engraving by J. Collaert after J. van der Straet, c. 1610.

    | Stradanus | Date: c. 1610 | Reference: 17504i
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    A fox in agony with its paw caught in a trap. Wood engraving by J Bateman.

    | Bateman, James, 1893-1959. | Reference: 39843i
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