The Mammal Gallery is the next major space inside the Museum of Nature. One of the first things one sees is this display. Taxidermied specimens are common throughout, often in diorama settings that are a mixture of artificial topography and painted backgrounds, each set in places within Canada and during different seasons. A mother and cub polar bear are at a hole in the Arctic ice. Unseen from this angle is a seal surfacing for air.
Red foxes are making inroads into the far north as the climate changes. This display case features one with an Arctic fox.
This display features a mother cougar watching over her cubs. Their attention is caught up with a vole on the forest floor.
This one features a pair of Arctic hares.
Two adolescent grizzly bears are seen in this display. Look closely at the bottom of the picture hiding at the rock edge. There's a pika there.
This display features beavers hard at work.
While this one finds a bison squaring off with a wolf pack.
Here we come across a majestic moose.
A herd of pronghorns are in this display, in a setting of the Saskatchewan prairies.
And for today I finish off with this set of Thinhorn Sheep, otherwise called Dall sheep.
The cougar sure is my favorite! They´re all adorable, though.
ReplyDeleteThey are all beautiful mammals.
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful animals.
ReplyDeleteWe have a similar museum in Brussels ! Love to go there it's amazing the animals look so true !
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Muito interessante este museu.
ReplyDeleteUm abraço e bom fim-de-semana.
Andarilhar
Dedais de Francisco e Idalisa
O prazer dos livros
They are all beautiful animals...
ReplyDeleteWonderful displays.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see this display. I wish we could keep the Arctic ice from melting!
ReplyDeleteJanis
...a moose is the one thing that I hope to see in the wild, perhaps one day.
ReplyDeleteMy pick is the fox. He looks so lovely even though foxes as an introduced species are a pest here in Oz.
ReplyDeleteIt is spring, William. Time to move outside and photograph some live animals!
ReplyDelete@Iris: they're well done.
ReplyDelete@Nancy: I agree.
@Kay: definitely.
@Gattina: I'd enjoy that.
@Francisco: thank you.
@Italiafinlandia: definitely.
@Jan: indeed.
@Janis: me too.
@Tom: I've seen them in the wild.
@Joan: foxes have character.
@David: that's true!
The displays look very well done.
ReplyDeleteAmazing!! Sub the Polar Bears with a Bald Eagle and you have a Colorado day.
ReplyDeleteGr8 Shots,
Cheers
Thin-horn sheep look (as my memory pulls up their lines) like big-horn sheep. But it's been a while... Thanks for sharing the indoor view of animals, which may be the only way many of us will ever see them! And on Nature shows on TV...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful displays. Anyone of them would make a nice pictorial fabric pattern, Mother cougar and Thinhorn sheep especially.
ReplyDeleteLove the foxes.We saw one in a field as we drove by this week.
ReplyDeleteWonderful display of mammals. Happy Friday, enjoy your day. Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteThat is quite a collection. I love the polar bears.
ReplyDeleteFunny how we know all the big mammals . We find it difficult to recognize insects as they are small.
ReplyDeleteWonderful displays. Though it would be even better to see them thriving in the wild.
ReplyDeleteThese scenes are so well put together. My favorite is the cougar.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful display! Tweeted.
ReplyDeleteMy bro lives in Edmonton and is currently in the Rockies soaking this all in!
ReplyDeleteThese scenes are amazing. Very well done.
ReplyDelete@Anvilcloud: they are.
ReplyDelete@Padre: thank you.
@Barbara: I think that too, but they are different species.
@Maywyn: you're welcome.
@Marie: I've had the pleasure to see foxes in the wild.
@Eileen: thank you.
@Sharon: so do I.
@Red: that's true.
@John: I agree.
@Michelle: it's a good one.
@Mari: thank you.
@Cloudia: he'd enjoy it.
@Happyone: definitely.
Great display of mammals. I love those foxes.
ReplyDeleteThis is a fine display, well done. Thanks for sharing it. :-)
ReplyDeleteMarvelous exhibit of all the animals, beautifully taken William.
ReplyDeleteLove the foxes and the beavers, I'd not heard of pronghorns so nice to see them:)
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos of nature more handsome mammals ~
ReplyDeleteHappy Day to you,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
The animals are so beautifully displayed William, wonderful to see here ✨
ReplyDeleteThey are all so good, I enjoyed seeing all of the animals, and such a good idea to put them within a diorama setting.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
such cool critters. have a nice weekend!! ( ;
ReplyDeleteI like the dioramas for educational purposes. They really give us a sense of the lay of the land.
ReplyDeleteI would LOVe this part. There is something about nature dioramas that really appeals to me -- and it has rabbits and foxes, too so what's not to love?!
ReplyDeleteWonderful exhibition.
ReplyDelete@Bill: me too.
ReplyDelete@DJan: you're welcome.
@Denise: thank you.
@Rosie: thanks.
@Carol: indeed.
@Grace: I agree.
@Jan: it is.
@Beth: thanks.
@Jennifer: they do.
@Jeanie: definitely.
@Klara: I think so.