Hedgehoges

Hedgehog sent by Anna-Kaisa on13 Aug, 2014 from Isojoki, Finland

Hedgehog sent by Bernhard on 28 Jul, 2017 from Augsburg, Germany 

Hedgehog ready for winter hibernation

Sent by Olesya from Murmansk, Russia 

 

Week 44, Outgoing mail

Sheep family

Illustration Virpi Pekkala, Finnish 

Good luck

Peace to Ukraine

 

Animals

Lion cubs from Lisa in New York, U.S.A.

August 31, 2010 the National Zoo welcomed a litter of  four  lion cubs. The first litter of  Zoo’s 5-year-old lion Shera and the first surviving litter for four-year- old Luke. 

Hedgehog from Katie in New York, U.S.A.

Gamochonia ( Octopus) Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1904) from Randi in Indiana, U.S.A.

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834 – 1919[) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species. The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures  (Kunstformen der Natur, "Art Forms of Nature")