monochrome woodcut print, pencil signed, dated, titled and numbered (#45 of 250); approximate measurements: image 8.75” W x 9.0” H paper 13-3/8 x 12-1/2 in. [black/white illustration of very rotund creature covered in spines and with long thin black snout; almost certainly a Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) from Australasia, probably modeled after an animal seen at the zoo]

#WorldEchidnaDay :
Jacques (Yakiv) Hnizdovsky (Ukraine-USA, 1915-85)
“Native Porcupine" [ #Echidna ], 1974
Woodcut print, 8.75 x 9.0”
ℹ️ He often sketched zoo animals in NYC, especially @ Bronx Zoo - found out they had echidnas in the 1950s when he was there, so they were likely the models for this!

Resharing for #WorldEchidnaDay

Resharing for #WorldEchidnaDay

Resharing for #WorldEchidnaDay

Resharing for #WorldEchidnaDay

Resharing for #WorldEchidnaDay

#WorldEchidnaDay

It's #WorldEchidnaDay so here's a drawing by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) of this extraordinary egg laying mammal. It was published by Richard Owen in the Philosophical Transactions (Pl.39, 1865). If you look closely, you can see a young baby in the pouch and a small outline sketch of it! buff.ly/8ErERyK

An echidna in dappled sunlight on leaf-litter

An echidna in dappled sunlight on leaf-litter

An echidna among grass and ferns, looking face-on into the camera

The cover of Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals, by Jack Ashby

Happy #WorldEchidnaDay to the world's second best animal (nothing beats a #platypus). #Echidnas are spiny, digging anteaters, & if threatened, sink vertically into the soil by doing jazz-hands with all four feet. My book #PlatypusMatters tells their story, & how the world came to know them. #echidna

v.1 (1863) - The mammals of Australia - Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

#WorldEchidnaDay and we're just feeling cute 😘 , you know? Might delete later.

From John Gould's "Mammals of Australia" 1863.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49738055

Contributed to BHL Australia by the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

It’s #WorldEchidnaDay and who wouldn’t want to celebrate this little monotreme?

Monotremes are the world’s only egg-laying mammals, making these spiky ones members of a small club with only the platypus.

This image by F. P. Nodder comes from Shaw's "Naturalist's Miscellany", via Museums Victoria