Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17543

    White-lipped peccary

    Date
    1879
    Creator
    Joseph Smit (1836 - 1929, Dutch) , Illustrator
    Creator - Organisation
    M & N Hanhart, Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    41158
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 241 mm
    width (page): 310mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological study of two white-lipped peccaries, Tayassu pecari [listed here as Dicotyles Labiatus], found in Central and South America. The peccaries are depicted in their natural habitat, one facing forward, the other with one hoof raised as if in motion.

    Table 10 from Biologia centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and central America, the Mammalia volume, authored by Edward Aliston and co-edited by Frederick Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin.

    Inscribed above: ‘Biol Centr Am Mammalia Tab 10’, and below: ‘J. Wolf del, J. Smith lith DICOTYLES LABIATUS Hanhart imp. 217’.

    Written in the associated text: ‘the White-lipped peccary is found in great droves in the thick primeval forests of the warmer lowlands, but is also met with occasionally in the higher-lying mountain-woods’.

    Frederick Du Cane Godman (1834-1919) British entomologist and ornithologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1882.

    Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) British naturalist and ornithologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873.
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