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Roman garden painting (detail), 1st century A.D., Casa del Bracciale d’Oro, Pompeii.

biomedicalephemera:

Clouded Leopard
The clouded leopard is only about 2-3 ft (0.6 to 0.9m) tall, but is incredibly strong, with hook-like claws. These let the little carnivores descend trees head-first, like a squirrel, and hang upside-down on branches. They kill prey on the ground and thanks to their excellent climbing skills, can carry it up trees, to keep it away from scavengers. Most leopards haul kills into the branches, but none are proportionally as strong and dexterous as the clouded.
A Handbook to the Carnivora. Part I. Cats, Civets, and Mungooses. Richard Lydekker, 1896.

nostalgica:

Dianthus barbatus Plate 207 (1793)