Mystery in the Adventure Kiara Jerez
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rom climbing inside attics to exploring in their workplace finding taxidermy animals, there was always something new to explore for the students at the San Bernardino County Museum. The students worked in Exploration center in which they took live animals into their own hands and cared for them. From snakes, roaches, to turtles and a bunny, they were surrounded by animals in the workplace. During the first few weeks as interns, they found old boxes that were preserved and old filled with bird nests, they had to organize them with labels and store them in a safe keeping environment. They used marble seal to keep oxygen out of the boxes. The bird nests were for research and kept in an old condition in the past, so storing the nests in boxes will keep them in better condition after being decomposed after a century. Students Benji Jose Aguilar and Mimi Karen
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Billiones crawled their way into the attic of the museum to locate taxidermy animals (or mounted specimen) . Taxidermy animals were hunted for pleasure, and then donated over the course of several years. The two were protected by using tavik suits to prevent the dust and fight against the cold in the attic. In the attic, the taxidermy animals were stacked, the condition they were in weren’t the best to help preserve them. “It was like an adventure, because I don’t think anyone has been up there really, in decades,” says Aguilar. All of the students worked together to locate all of the taxidermy heads in the attic by using a ladder which measured approximately 10-12ft high. The students had to retrieve each head and move them to the proper environment in which they were safely stored. The heads come from sizes of large and extra large, from rhino heads to an african buffalo’s head.
