Dwarf Crocodile

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Artist

Name:: Heubach, Walter
Dates:: 1865-1923

Illustration

Subject:: Animals
Technique:: Color Process
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: Ernst Mayr Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Brehms Tierleben, vol. 1 (second reprint)
Author:: Brehm, Alfred Edmund
Publisher:: Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1920
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Description:

A dwarf crocodile leaves the bank of a river to enter the water.
The dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis) is a reptile in the family Crocodylidae native to Africa. It is the smallest extant crocodile and is mainly active after nightfall.

The caption reads in the original German: Stumpfkrokodil.

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