Hippopotamus (Specht)

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Artist

Name:: Specht, Friedrich
Dates:: 1839-1909
Country:: Germany

Illustration

Subject:: Animals
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Specht, Carl Gottlob
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: University of Illinois Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Brehms Tierleben, vol. 3
Author:: Brehm, Alfred Edmund
Publisher:: Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1900
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Description:

A female hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is in the water with a young on its back as another adult stands in the background.
The caption reads in the original German: Flusspferd (Hippopotamus amphibius).

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