Do you have a room of dermestid beetles to eat the flesh to prepare clean
skeletons? I don't know if this is still a common natural history museum
practice.

-Stewart

Stewart Wechsler
Ecological Consulting
West Seattle
206 932-7225
mailto:ecostewart at quidnunc.net

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To: Tweeters
Subject: [Tweeters] Salvaging bird specimens (was: window strike Fox
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...

Mike Donahue
Seattle's Beacon Hill

"... Paleontologists use skeleton collections to help identify bones
recovered from archeological sites,...
...Their skeleton collection ranks 11th in the world. ...

You can read more about their collection on the web at:
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/zoo.html"


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