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Which manul is the oldest at the manulization? Is it the Riga cat?
Which manul is the oldest at the manulization? Is it the Riga cat?
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I think Calcutta is the oldest one at the website for now — https://manulization.com/manuls/calcutta.html
Manulizationverified_filled ,
INCREDIBLE, 1907?!👀
Wow, look what’s on Manulization.
kone, Yep! Incredibly that there was a manul photographer back then who took that photo! Unfortunately we couldn't find a photographer's name.
I wonder whether there are paintings depicting the manul that were created before the advent of photography...
Manulizationverified_filled ,
I asked the internet: Yes, there are unique graphic depictions of the manul that were created long before the invention of photography. The earliest surviving European illustrations of this predator were made by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas. It was in his honor that the animal received its second name — “Pallas’s cat.” In 1781, the first documented image of the manul appeared in the scientific works of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. [1]
Manulizationverified_filled ,
yes, in the chat they discussed the famous illustration from Pallas’s book.
Pallas P. S. Felis manul, nova species asiatica; descripta : [Lat.] // Acta Academiae scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae. — 1781. — Vol. 5, pars 1. — P. 278—291, tab. VII.
https://t.me/manulizationchat/119405
Pavel Burov, Just in case, I’ll quote myself here (with minimal editing) from the chat about this illustration from the second half of the eighteenth century:
Try getting someone who has never seen a manul to draw one by a certain date. Without photos or videos. At best, your counterpart can tell a cat from a parrot. But only when sober, which is rare for them. You can write them two or three letters by hand. At best, you can meet once for half an hour and talk. But you won’t be looking at sketches; you don’t have the time, because you need to have two hundred spreads of scientific text with illustrations and tables ready by the day before yesterday.
Pavel Burov, And here’s another one! Colorful 😁
Also from Peter Pallas’s works.
Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, volume 1, 1811.
Vika Malyshkoverified_filled ,
An adorable kitty 🤗🥰
Pavel Burov, It looks like an Iranian red 😸