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The images we use on the Animal books are from the entire animal kingdom, from large land mammals like tigers and elephants to fish, birds, insects, and invertebrates. There are some incredibly beautiful engravings of animals that most people have never seen before. We have a large collection of original 19th century engravings, and the images, by and large, are both surprising and wonderful. The animals are in trouble. When most of the engravings were created in the 19 th century, these animals were plentiful.

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LC is least concern. I searched for the covers and names and could assess that in that table, there are 4 false positives due to the ambiguity of common names! Only the Bush wren and the Pigfooted Bandicoot got scientific names corresponding to what they look like, and are extinct, which is quite sad. The elephant should be Loxondota africana, vulnerable species. The Sumatran tiger, Panthera tigris ssp. So all in all, we got some truth but also some wrong names and hence wrong conservation statuses!

I tried resolving the common names to scientific names using taxize::comm2sci , which was only partly successful. I got conservation status for the scientific names using the rredlist package , programmatic interface to the IUCN Red List.

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