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Happy #WorldAnimalDay! Do you have a favourite in the Ashmolean? World Animal Day exists to celebrate animals but also to raise their status and improve welfare standards around the globe. The 4th of October is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.

🦑 Ojime in the form of an octopus, Japan, late 19th century, EA1956.3481 🐶 Dog beneath bamboo, Qizong Zhang (c. 1931), ink and colour on silk, EA1967.13 🦁 Gold-glass fragment, medallion with the head of a leopard with open jaws, Catacombs of Rome, 200-400 CE, gold and glass, AN2007.29