Le travail d'Aidan Harradence 🖤
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For years, poor little Ogcocephalus vespertilio has been stuck behind the magnificent Chilomycterus atinga - he must be batfish crazy now with the burr fishes’ over inflated ego..
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Mid morning pretzel snack aka snakes in the #museumtoulouse
Always wonder how they decide how to lay out a snake? Mostly I see coiled or stretched so this is a nice variant on a theme & also highlights how flexible they are 🐍
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Once more - as with most museums - the most dominate insect displays are Lepidoptera & Coleoptera - big, impressive…
But the Hymenoptera/Diptera - two of the most hyper-diverse groups of Insects - the displays are always lacking in diversity & imagination
Always disappointing
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Ok here are some more mammals for you from the #MuseumToulouse from the #MuseumNerdsAbroad
Cute fatty-platy but a foot issue with an echidna (back feet should be backwards)
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This Hyena appears to have been stung by a bee..
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Look at the fluffy head and antlers of the Roe deer - the antler hair will fall off once the blood supply is lost - a process that is sped up by the males rubbing them against objects to promote hardening
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The backside of Capreolus capreolus - the Roe Deer
I did not know that they didn’t have tails! Well long tails that is - apparently they have a small one - only 2/3 cm long and hidden by their coat
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Erm…we can still see you…
Prairie dogs are the worst at playing hide-and-seek
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MÉGADERME À AILES ORANGÉES in French but Yellow-winged Bat in English
A false vampire, Lavia frons, from East Africa. This species is part of the group that also have false nipples near their anus for the young to hold on to.
So much fakery & misdirection
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Although there is a distance between the bear and the deer when looking straight on, I believe the curators knew that this angle would lead to mirth (to those , myself included, with a juvenile mind)
#WallOfSkeletons
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The disarticulated exoskeleton of a Cerambycidae - Macrodotia cervicornis aka the sabertooth longhorn beetle
Gorgeous way of display beetles - highlighting how they would be on flight (just slightly larger than life for emphasis)
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Oh I want this…
A directional seismograph as told through the medium of dragons, balls and frogs - ingenious and beautiful
‘Reconstruction of the first "seismometer" invented by the Chinese Zhang Meng in Tan 132’
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‘As it cools, the body of the casting retracts and solidifies, sometimes forming prismatic vertical columns evoking organ pipes’
‘it helped us understand how #wombats form cubic poos (it cooled in similar way to poo drying inside the #wombat's gut) - Jack Ashby
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I admit it’s bold angle for a giraffe but I want you to focus on the skin folds in the ‘arm’ (or leg) pits
Folds! That’s a great taxidermy specimen right there - no over stuffing (sorry #HornimanWalrus) showing a good understanding of natural wrinkling
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