The Current11:34A hand-drawn map with no people, but 1,642 free-roaming animals
Artist Anton Thomas wanted to draw a “world map of nature” that would showcase the many different species across the globe — but at one point he was a little worried he’d run out of animals.
“I thought before drawing, ‘Oh, surely I would run out of species across the Southern Ocean [Antarctic Ocean] or the vast South Pacific,'” said Thomas, a New Zealand man now living in Melbourne.
“But no, there was just always more to choose from,” he told The Current’s Matt Galloway.
In the end, Thomas included 1,642 species —
