2004 Nov 5th - Kate and I visit the International Wildlife Museum and are pleasantly suprised.
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Kate and I are out wandering around and we wander by the International Wildlife Museum out by Gate's Pass. We've always heard it's cheese and never stopped, we decided to check it out today.
First in the building is a very impressive insect colleciton. These iridescent butterflys were incredible.
Checkout the size of these butterflys. They're huge.
The butterfly is both sexes combined. It really happens. They cannot reproduce, but live a relatively normal life. There's more about them in the next picture. It's called Gynandromorphy.
Up close with a live giant scorpian.
The huge Atlas Moth. It has the greatest wing area of any insect.
Three of those leaves are insects.
Then you get to the taxidermy part. They have some very realistic displays. It keeps getting better as you go through.
That's a Hippo skull on the right, that's Kate on the left.
They have some really cool tactile displays too. This is the skull of a killer whale.
This display blew me away. An actual passenger pigeon. Remember, they used to fly in flocks so thick they'd darken the sky for several minutes and then they were hunted to extinction.
This is the Common Snipe, you hunt the Uncommon Snipe when you go camping.
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