Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum

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We house some of our larger mammalian skulls on top of the large waterfowl cabinet.  As you can see, it isn’t exactly ideal at the moment!  The long black thing in the foreground is baleen from a whale; behind that are the skulls of 2 walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), and on the blue boxes are two whale skulls (one pilot whale, Globicephala on the left, and I’ve never been able to reach the one on the right to see what it is!).  If you look at the top of the stack of black and white boxes in the back, the topmost white box is literally just inches underneath our fluorescent lights.  It’s my dream to someday have appropriate storage for all of these individuals!

We house some of our larger mammalian skulls on top of the large waterfowl cabinet.  As you can see, it isn’t exactly ideal at the moment!  The long black thing in the foreground is baleen from a whale; behind that are the skulls of 2 walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), and on the blue boxes are two whale skulls (one pilot whale, Globicephala on the left, and I’ve never been able to reach the one on the right to see what it is!).  If you look at the top of the stack of black and white boxes in the back, the topmost white box is literally just inches underneath our fluorescent lights.  It’s my dream to someday have appropriate storage for all of these individuals!

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