Image from Edward Topsell's "Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes"
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Am I seeing things, or are these figures in the bathroom wallpaper at Bobo in the West Village taken from al-Jahiz’s Kitab al-Hayawan aka Book of Animals? Because who what where when why and how.

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