Aardvark, Orycteropus afer 1, silky anteater with young, Cyclopes didactylus 2, and African black-bellied pangolin, Phataginus tetradactyla 4. Head of giant anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla 3. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Édouard Traviès from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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