Thursday, July 1, 2010

The Naturalist center was coooooool!!!!!!!!!! They had stuffed birds and stuffed polar bears and human skulls and snakes floating in an alcoholic mixture to preserve them and samples of rocks and bones and mammal skins etc. etc.! There was a deer that they stuffed in a jar and snakes were floating in the solution and the frogs were too. There were cabinets and when you opened them, there were drawers and if you pulled them out, they contained stuff like human jaw bones and and bird skins and snake skins and rocks and shells and stuff like that. There was a ton of stuffed birds along one wall and all the hawks and eagles seemed to stare down at you and there was a little stuffed chipmunk and two ferrets and a wolf. There were two foxes and a big, ugly, groundhog. The bills of allthe birds were plastic because the original ones would have corroded already. There were all sorts of fish with no pupils that were floating in the jars and seacucumbers and spineless creepy things. There were butterflies that were pinned down to a tray and beetles and cicadas and all sorts of stuff. There were two tigers and a skeleton of somebody from the 1900's. I asked" Are these people donors or do you go out and dig the bones up" and they dug them up. There were Inca people and Egyptian people and femurs and humors and all that stuff. I asked, "do you have things like brains floating in vinegar or organs and such" but they said they had no organs. Everything there was dead.

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