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Saving the Whale – for the next generation of museum visitors | Animal Bytes
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Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections. February 18, 2014. Saving the Whale – for the next generation of museum visitors. In Part 2 of the tale of the Museum’s iconic Finback Whale, Nigel Larkin, natural history conservator ( www.natural-history-conservation.com. But not only is this one of the largest skeletons you’ll ever see (bigger than most dinosaurs! Many of the techniques used in that project would clearly come in useful. They had to be studied and their status recorded in some de...
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May | 2015 | Animal Bytes
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Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections. Monthly Archives: May 2015. May 8, 2015. Alex Tomkins, Museum Apprentice, writes:. The Museum has nine Passenger Pigeons including a beautifully mounted specimen, I always get drawn to this bird because of all extinct species, the Passenger Pigeon had the most spectacular demise, hurtling from a population of billions to a population of exactly zero in less than a hundred years. Why and how is a question I and others have asked many times.
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Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections. Monthly Archives: May 2014. May 21, 2014. Swifts, Swallows and House Martins. Vicky Singleton, Conservator at the Museum of Zoology, writes:. Although relatively small, these observations paid off recently during a trip to the Lake District when I found myself confidently recognising Swallows as such, something I would have been unable to do in the past. May 15, 2014. Platypus, Ornithorhyncus anatinus. And especially Max Perutz. Like Us on Facebook!
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The longest lived animal in the world? | Animal Bytes
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Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections. October 22, 2014. The longest lived animal in the world? Dr Richard Preece, Curator of Molluscs at the Museum of Zoology, writes:. There have been a number of potential contenders for this crown including Giant tortoises, large whales, Asian elephants and some reptiles and fish but none of these animals has been shown to live for more than 200 years. This is not the case with the Ocean quagog (. The Search for Sawfishes in West Africa. On The Searc...
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Jerdon’s Courser | Animal Bytes
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Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections. March 23, 2013. University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge 2013. Prof Rhys Green of the Ecology and Conservation Science Research Group in the University of Cambridge Department of Zoology writes:. A remarkable and poignant specimen held in the Museum is the preserved skin of a Jerdon’s courser. A bird shot in southern India in the mid-19. Eurypterus remipes a Sea Scorpion. Indian Elephant, Elephas maximus →. March 24, 2013 at 3:29 am. On Saving the W...
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Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine | Animal Bytes
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Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections. March 19, 2013. Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine. University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge 2013. Mathew Lowe, Collections Manager at the Museum of Zoology, writes:. But to unpack and bring out a Tasmanian Tiger skin, which looks like it had died only recently, results in conflicting emotions. You are enthralled by the beauty and rarity of such a precious object as the Museum’s Collections Manager my thoughts and observations also turn to the care of...
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Animal Bytes | Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections
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Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections. The Animal Bytes project at the Museum of Zoology is capturing stories of the Museum and responses to its collections from staff and visitors of all kinds. Darwin’s Beetle Collection, University Museum of Zoology 2013. We are now collecting stories from the collections from visitors to the museum. Is there a specimen in the museum that fascinates you? Are you amazed by the size of the Finback Whale? Do you love the feathers of our Birds of Paradise?
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Extinct Land Snails from Henderson Island | Animal Bytes
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Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections. March 19, 2013. Extinct Land Snails from Henderson Island. Two species of extinct land snail from Henderson Island. Dr Richard Preece, Curator of Malacology here at the Museum of Zoology, writes about specimens he collected during field work to Henderson Island:. Henderson Island is an uninhabited island in the middle of the South Pacific. With an area of 37 km. In 1991 I was invited to join the Sir Peter Scott. Great Bittern, Botaurus stellaris.
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C.95.G | Animal Bytes
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Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections. July 6, 2015. Carl Chapman, Norfolk Cetacean Recorder writes:. Some months ago I acquired a book. Arthur H Patterson wrote ‘Notes of an East Coast Naturalist’ in 1904. The book was written by this amateur naturalist in a time when collecting was done with a gun rather than careful observation. On page 271 sandwiched between notes on Mole behaviour and observations on Toads is trapped a story; the story of our little lady. A telegram was sent to Dr ...
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The Passenger Pigeon | Animal Bytes
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Capturing the stories of the Museum and its collections. May 8, 2015. Alex Tomkins, Museum Apprentice, writes:. The Museum has nine Passenger Pigeons including a beautifully mounted specimen, I always get drawn to this bird because of all extinct species, the Passenger Pigeon had the most spectacular demise, hurtling from a population of billions to a population of exactly zero in less than a hundred years. Why and how is a question I and others have asked many times. The Passenger Pigeon or Wild Pigeon (.
