what do you think the animal circled in red is intended to be? this is a (spanish i believe) manuscript depicting noah's arc from around 975. our guesses are bear or rabbit
it shouldn't be a kangaroo because it was made too early for that. unless kangaroos were known about in that part of the world in that century somehow
Maybe it's a cynocephali? That's what I'd wager.
it could be an ostrich? Drawn by someone who had never seen one
but given the feet I'd go with rabbit
Is a fucked um monkey
Medieval manuscript, so it literally doesn't matter. These fucking unwashed peasants typically made illustrations of third hand oral accounts of animals. The fucking hillbillies had no idea what they were doing. Go back 1,500 years before those apes and you can actually ID species in art because the classical civilizations weren't shit-eating savages.
Imagine if FA was printed out and made into a book for future generations to discover.
Looks like a fox. It's orange and foxes are always being shown standing on their back legs and doing other anthro shit.
Suricata suricatta
kangaroo
What if it is a bird and the ears are actually a beak?
The feet are dissimilar to the other birds, more like the other nonbird animals.
Was thinking raccoon but that also should be unknown to Europe at this time.
I'd agree with rabbit.
i don't know, there's a few other birds on the page and if it was meant to be a bird but it would probably look like those more
maybe
i forgot about monkeys so it could be one, no tail so it would be an ape instead right (not like this artist pays the most attention to anatomy)
Aboriginies are one of the lost tribes of Israel, and transmitted knowledge of kangaroos to Europe
Kangaroo.
It's a bunny rabbit
obviously
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dont forget the hand-lizards that occasionally brandished axes.
Squirrel? Goat rising its front limbs, ready to strike? There is no saying. In those manuscripts you can see oysters and bees with beaks, snakes with legs and crocodiles with floppy ears.
monkey
Makes me wonder just how old furry conventions really are.
It goes way back. Picrel is the oldest piece of art ever found (around 35000 to 40000 years back).
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a few copies showing the same animal exist too