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  • There's NO excuse / PETA.
  • There's NO excuse / PETA.
  • A gang of hunters pretend to wash their eyes with a slimy substance, thus fooling the monkeys, who 'ape' them and blind themselves, allowing the hunters to move in. Line engraving by J. Collaert after J. van der Straet, c. 1610.
  • House mice devouring a large cheese placed on the floor next to their hole. Etching by Hicks, 1888.
  • Native Indians catching wild elephants by snaring their feet with ropes. Engraving by T Medland, ca 1800, after S Bey.
  • An appeal to housewives : demand humanely killed rabbits : don't buy them caught like this / Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
  • A fox in agony with its paw caught in a trap. Wood engraving by J Bateman.