These Fictional Maps Pay Tribute to Animals and Nature

By
Emily Johnson
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DAU-DAW is a graphic artist from Denmark who loves turning his ideas and concepts into unique and beautiful works of art.

Inspired by his great love for both nature and animals, he created little worlds or “maps” that reflect the nature and different kinds of animals. Each piece takes between a few days and several weeks.

“The ‘maps’ are all divided into different countries and every mountain, every lake, every city and every ocean in these pieces are named after everything relevant to the title of each piece. Take for example Felidae – Land of the Lion. Everything in this ‘map’ is named after both fictional and actual lion species that are either extinct or still around today,” he wrote on Bored Panda.

His artworks are all fictional and do not reflect actual geographical locations.

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🦁 Felidae – Land of the Lion 🦁 The Felidae comprises two subfamilies, the Pantherinae and the Felinae. The former includes the Panthera species: lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard, clouded leopard and the sunda clouded leopard. All the non-pantherine cats are part of the Felinae, which includes several genera and the majority of cat species – as well as the domestic cat. . . . . . . . #instaart #artoninsta #emergart #magicgallery #artfido #theartshed #art_spotlight #srartwork #socfeature #artoninstagram #fineart #modernart #contemporaryart #artproduction #artistoninstagram #artwork #intuitiveart #artgallery #serigrafía #figurativeart #abstractlandscape #map #interior #topography #topografia #savethelions #lions #lionking #lion #lionsofinstagram . @theartcloud @arts.tv @love_arts_help @arts_helps @artssecret @art_theatre @arts.hub @artworld_share @arts.chamber @arts_visualization @art.sharez @bestartsharer @digital.artworks @arts_help @arts_expo @artistic.empire @juststartshelp @art_whisper @artsheep @illustration_daily

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'Mustelidae – Land of the Otter' The Mustelidae (from Latin mustela, weasel) are a family of mammals, including weasels, badgers, otters, ferrets, martens, mink, and wolverines, among others. There are about 60 species in this family across eight subfamilies. On this map each subfamily is represented as a country and within each country every city, mountain, lake, etc. are named after the different species belonging to that specific subfamily. 🐹🐹🐹 . . . . . . . . . @theartcloud @arts.tv @love_arts_help @arts_helps @artssecret @art_theatre @arts.hub @artworld_share @arts.chamber @arts_visualization @art.sharez @bestartsharer @digital.artworks @arts_help @arts_expo @artistic.empire @juststartshelp @art_whisper @artsheep @illustration_daily . #instaart #artoninsta #emergart #animal #magicgallery #artfido #theartshed #art_spotlight #srartwork #socfeature #artoninstagram #fineart #modernart #contemporaryart #artproduction #artistoninstagram #artwork #intuitiveart #artgallery #otters #figurativeart #abstractlandscape #map #maps #topography #topografia #badger #otter #animalart

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Macaca – Land of the Macaque has a country called 'Prehistoric species' as you can see on the first close-up picture in this post, meaning that every name within this country is the Latin name for a prehistoric fossil macaque monkey that used to wander the earth. This entire map consists of five more countries – one for each group of monkey that the family of macaque is divided into. . . . . . . #digArtShare #love_arts_help #art_whisper #art_theatre #bestartsharer #artstv #arts_expo #art #poster #interior #interior444 #indretning #indretningsinspiration #monkeys #macaque #monkey #nature #map #interior4you1 #interior2you #lovenature #aarhus #denmark #daudaw #indretningsdesign #illustration #illustrationartist #naturegram #naturelovers

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🙊🙉🙈'Macaca – Land of the Macaque'🙈🙉🙊 Highly detailed map I have made in the image of the Barbary monkey. Mountains, seas, lakes, cities etc. are all named after monkeys belonging to the genus of Macaca – 23 spieces in total invided into 5 groups. Each of these groups are represented on this map as little countries . . . . . . . . #instaart #artoninsta #emergart #magicgallery #artfido #theartshed #art_spotlight #srartwork #socfeature #artoninstagram #fineart #modernart #contemporaryart #artproduction #artistoninstagram #artwork #intuitiveart #artgallery #serigrafía #figurativeart #abstractlandscape #map #maps #topography #topografia #macaque #monkey #monkeys #monkey🐒 #monkeysofinstagram . @theartcloud @arts.tv @love_arts_help @arts_helps @artssecret @art_theatre @arts.hub @artworld_share @arts.chamber @arts_visualization @art.sharez @bestartsharer @digital.artworks @arts_help @arts_expo @artistic.empire @juststartshelp @art_whisper @artsheep @illustration_daily

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🦅'Accipitridae – Land of the Eagle'🦅 Highly detailed map made in the image of the Bald Eagle. Mountains, seas, lakes, cities etc. are all named after bird spieces belonging to the family of Accipitridae (hawks, true eagles, seaeagles and snake-eagles) approx. 60 in total . . . . . . . . #eagle #baldeagle #eagleamerica #birdofprey #bird #artsxdesign #art #artfido #aves #danmark #freedom #topography #map #daudaw #instaart #emergart #magicgallery #theartshed #art_spotlight #artgallery #artwork #onbooooooom #artistoninstagram #artist_features #theweekoninstagram #animalsofinstagram #eagleart #interior4you1 . @theartcloud @arts.tv @love_arts_help @arts_helps @artssecret @art_theatre @arts.hub @artworld_share @arts.chamber @arts_visualization @art.sharez @bestartsharer @digital.artworks @arts_help @arts_expo @artistic.empire @juststartshelp @art_whisper @artsheep @illustration_daily

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