Postage Stamps: terrestrial animals

Hi Hivers. Yesterday I shared my first installment on the topic: postage stamps, a community proposal for the current month. I posted my collection related to birds and aquatic life. Today I will do it on terrestrial animals.
Beings that live in interaction, in the environment where man lives.

Terrestrial animals:

This stamp has a double importance for me, on the one hand it reflects two beautiful dogs. Noble animals that have earned the title of being man's best friend, for the love they give unconditionally to the people who welcome them with affection.

On the other hand, these dogs, named Veterok and Ugolyok, went to the cosmos in 1966, aboard the spacecraft Cosmos 110.

This little animal with a little unusual appearance and has its long snout to explore and stir the ground, is a Russian desman. A mammal that lives in Eastern Europe and has a soft, bushy and shiny fur, motivating people who hunt, for the value of its skin and hairs.
It is a species that must be cared for as it is in danger of extinction.

In this stamp we have two animals, the Common eland antelope a horned mammal found in southern African countries.

Despite being slow in its mobility, it can leap up to more than two meters high.

The other one, without horns, is a Guanaco, another wild mammal that lives in South America. They have large eyes and thick eyelashes that help protect them from dust.

Here I present the silver fox or black fox, with a beautiful furry tail and white tip. Its fur has always been in great demand by European and other nobility.

The European mink is a carnivore found in isolated regions of Spain and in the Aural Mountains.
This species prefers to be near natural freshwater reservoirs, and we must protect it as it is in serious danger of extinction.

The Caucasian Shepherd Dog also called Ovcharka is a large dog, originally from the Caucasian Mountains.
A great hunter, and is used as a guardian of livestock and even in prisons.

The West Caucasian tur is a diurnal animal, with a long beard and arched horns, with the tips pointing towards the body.

The Arctic fox or polar fox with short ears, could not be left out of this stamp collection. It likes to be in dens, on the slopes and tundras of northern Eurasia and North America.

Its long fur is a natural coat that allows it to withstand very low temperatures.

The Beaver, is a rodent that in this other stamp, is observed doing what it likes: gnawing wood. For that reason, it is capable of knocking down trees, by the use of its big teeth and the strength of its jaws.
An image that I always remember from the animated movies I used to watch when I was a child.

The rest of the animals shown below are well known: horses, a tender white spotted deer, an American buffalo, other dogs, tigers and even a lamb.

These Soviet stamps presented here are from the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect very interesting drawings that denote a creative work, something appreciated by philatelists, collectors of antique objects and history lovers.

They are prints that I value from an emotional point of view, that make me know part of the universal historical culture through a miniature made on paper, and that I have managed to keep since my childhood.

I hope you liked my collection. Thank you for reading.