About the Project

The ZooTrophy Animal-a-Day project began on October 15th, 2013 as illustrator Angela "LemurKat" Oliver began working her way, systematically but selectively, through the alphabet and presenting, via social media, an illustrated animal to the world. Daily.

All pieces are drawn as 2.5 x 3.5 inch collectible cards, using a combination of polychromos and prismacolor pencils, along with other art materials. Many are still available for purchase ($10) or trade, so drop her an email if anything captures your eye or if there is an animal you wish to request.

It is predicted this project will take her at least two years to complete - with approximately 36 animals being drawn for each letter. She has also used the images to create a collectible hardback encyclopedia series, playing cards and a desk calendar, as well as the ZooTrophy collectible trading card game.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Creature Feature #18: Ani


This strange looking bird is a member of the cuckoo family. Although, unlike other cuckoos, she is social and shares her territory with up to five other breeding pairs. Her eggs are laid into a communual nest, and all the birds take turns incubating and feeding the chicks. Gregarious and noisy, her and her fellow flock mates like to hang out in pastures, where they eat the insects disturbed by the livestock. She also enjoys a diet of termites, frogs, large insects and lizards. Her native home is the grasslands and open terrain of South America, but her kin have been gradually making the move north, into the United States.

The "Creature Feature"  will be erratically on hiatus over the month of November, as I am penning a novel for NaNoWriMo - this does not mean we shall be entirely without art, but it may not be daily. We shall resume again fully in December, at which point I shall hopefully be up to "B".

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