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Chacma baboon teasing a Black man with his own food in South Africa. According to German naturalist Peter Kolbe, the ursine baboon, Papio ursinus, steals food from humans and sits eating it, sometimes offering it to him. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smiths The Naturalists Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.
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Chacma baboon teasing a Black man with his own food in South Africa. According to German naturalist Peter Kolbe, the ursine baboon, Papio ursinus, steals food from humans and sits eating it, sometimes offering it to him. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smiths The Naturalists Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.
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7595 x 4110 px | 89.3 MB
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64.3 x 34.8 cm | 25.3 x 13.7 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
ALBION PRESS • ANECDOTE • ANIMAL • ANIMALS • BLACK (SKIN COLOUR) • BLACK MALE • CAPE BABOON • CHACMA BABOON • COMICAL • COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING • FOOD • FOODSTUFFS • GERMAN • GERMANS • HANDCOLOURED • JAMES CUNDEE • KOLBEN • LARCENY • MONKEY • NATURAL HISTORY • NATURAL SCIENCES • NATURALIST • NATURALISTS CABINET, THE • NATURE STUDY • OFFER • OR INTERESTING SKETCHES OF ANIMAL HISTORY • PAPIO URSINUS • PETER KOLBE • REVEREND THOMAS SMITH • ROBBERY • SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION • SOUTH AFRICA • SOUTH OF AFRICA • TAUNT • TEASING • THEFT • URSINE BABOON • ZOOLOGY
