Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Gorilla gorilla
Gorilla mounted in a crouched standing position on a manufactured stone-look historic base. All limbs are contacting the base, with the right forelimb on a raised section. The head is pushed forward and facing forward.
Pan troglodytes
Chimpanzee mounted in a crouched standing position on a manufactured stone-look historic base. All limbs are contacting the base. The head is pushed forward and facing forward.
Pagophilus groenlandicus
Small furry cream-coloured seal, mounted in a lying down position with its body in a straight line, its flippers alongside the body, and the head flat on the ground.
Eptatretus cirrhatus
Stuffed skin of a hagfish, mounted to an exhibition base in a swimming position with a natural wave to the body.
Lemuridae, Lemur, brain, Cast
Wax cast of the brain of a lemur.
Zearaja nasuta
Rough skate mounted with its body and head in a straight line and facing forwards in a natural position. The tail is curved to the right, and straightens back out at the tip.
Necturus maculosus
A complete skeleton of a salamander mounted onto a wooden base. The head and body are in a straight line and facing forwards. Wire holds both legs and head together. The skeleton is attached to the base with a metal rod halfway down vertebrae.
Amphiuma tridactylum
A complete skeleton of a salamander mounted onto a wooden base. Specimen head and body are straight and facing forwards. Wire holds head together and end of tail has broken away from vertebrae, but is still in place.
Ateles
Complete articulated skeleton of a Spider monkey, mounted on a black metal frame and wooden base. The specimen is in an erect standing position with the body curved slightly to its right side, and its head facing forward.
Chimpanzee skull with the jaw tied in place.