It's tale. told by an idiot. full of sound and fury.

Young Girl Dreaming (Study of a Child Asleep), Paul Gauguin

Seals relaxing in what the text refers to as a “Seal’s Dormitory” from Edmond Selous’s The bird watcher in the Shetlands (1905).

A diagram of two Asian monitor lizard engaged in combat (though to the untrained eye it may look like they’re hugging it out) from Revue suisse de zoologie t.69 (1962).

Gerenuks demonstrating their ability to be long (left) and tall (right) from Richard Lydekker’s The game animals of Africa (1908).

A lion and unicorn playing chess from James McNeill Whistler's The portfolio : an artistic periodical (1880). From the text: "[...] in the scene on a papyrus in the British Museum of the lion and unicorn playing at chess, though [the lion] is obviously an emblem of royalty, the caricaturist has not aimed at representing majesty. This, however, is of the Roman period, and has probably but little of the Egyptian character."

"Lioness and cubs" from Richard Lydekker's A handbook to the carnivora (1896).