To mark Endangered Species Day on Friday 21 May 2021, staff and volunteers at the Museum of Zoology have been writing about the endangered species on display in the galleries that hold stories important to them. Come and explore these amazing animals with us. Orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus Dr Ed Turner, Curator of Insects As Curator of Insects, selecting orangutans to write about might seem an … Continue reading Endangered Species Day
Can you tell the green animal from seeing just a smidgeon of it? Test your Animal I Spy skills with our game using animals from the Museum of Zoology. Do you have a favourite green animal that we’ve missed? Visit again in two weeks, when we explore animals with spines in the Museum. Continue reading Animal I Spy: Green Animals
Have you been watching our Animal Alphabet virtual tours of the Museum? Each week we have taken a different letter of the alphabet and explored the animals beginning with that letter in the Museum’s displays. We reached the end of the alphabet last week, so here is our final Animal Alphabet post. We have chosen some of our favourites to give you the whole alphabet, … Continue reading Animal Alphabet: Aardvark to Zebra
Join us every Tuesday as we make an alphabet from the animals in the Museum of Zoology. Today is the letter K: K is for kakpo, kiwi, kangaroo, Komodo dragon, kudu, kinkajou and kingfisher. Can you think of any others? Join us next week for animals in the Museum beginning with the letter L. Get ready to roar as L is for Lion! Continue reading Animal Alphabet: K is for Kakapo
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