Nottingham Natural History Museum

[bmathison1972]

Ahhh, I tought that the blue thing was a misplaced door handle by some obscure reason. Now I can understand.
What kills me is that you says this is not an human skull. Clearly not from gorilla nor chimpanzee..  The only thing it could be other than modern human is one of the most modern extinct relatives of human, neanderthal? but these I considere as humans too.


But now... I compare the size of this skull and its FAIRLY small for an human skull, when compared with warthog skull, birdwing butterfly or horned lizard for example. So it must be a small monkey but with a skull that resembles atonishingly an human skull, much more than great ape skull does.... Now I'm really intringued.

The bird skin could be a nightjar? It was my second option but I tought that the bill was too curved for a nightjar so I said merlin. Oh, wait... this small black hook is not the bill, but a loose bunch of throat feathers, and the bill is the more whitish thing? Then is a cuckoo!!!!

the eye sockets are too big for a human skull too

[AnimalToyForum]

Bingo for the cuckoo! Good work, I'm impressed!

Honestly, the skull has no label or documentation. It is a primate of some sort but I need to work it out. I'll post some better pics so you can help.  my guess would be a young chimpanzee.

[AnimalToyForum]

It is a chimpanzee.

[Isidro]

How different from an adult one!

[sirenia]

How different from an adult one!

That's peadomorphism for ya. Makes you wonder how chimps see us with our skull shape.

[AnimalToyForum]

You saw the sneak previews and identified the species, now here are the finished complete cases. 

[Isidro]

Now they look much more wonderful togethers, and with the addition of butterflies (some Morpho, Kallima inachus, faded Siproeta stelenes?, Mimas tiliae, maybe Agrias sp? and others) (and a stag beetle probably Odontolabis sp, a jellyfish model probably Pelagia noctiluca and other things), bird eggs (including one from guillemot) and glass eyes used for taxidermy

[AnimalToyForum]

Now they look much more wonderful togethers, and with the addition of butterflies (some Morpho, Kallima inachus, faded Siproeta stelenes?, Mimas tiliae, maybe Agrias sp? and others) (and a stag beetle probably Odontolabis sp, a jellyfish model probably Pelagia noctiluca and other things), bird eggs (including one from guillemot) and glass eyes used for taxidermy

Well spotted!

[AnimalToyForum]

An update on the Nottingham Natural History Museum. I've been busy this past year planning a new gallery about the process of taxidermy and habitat diorama collections. Over the past month we've begun moving and installing the specimens. Here are some photos I took this week showing what we've been up to:

[bmathison1972]

Uggh...I'd love to work in a NHM!

[Isidro]

Uggh...I'd love to work in a NHM!

I understood you already work at one?

[Gwangi]

These are awesome, thanks for sharing! I love this stuff. I don't work at a museum but I've been trying to turn my home into one since I was a kid. 

[Lanthanotus]

Thanks for the insight, Adam. Looks very promising and as I said before I really like those diorama cabinets you have there. I miss some reptiles though

[AnimalToyForum]

Oh, we have reptiles going in this gallery, I'll share photos when they are in.

Here are some updates from this week...but I'm so busy I barely have time to remember to take photos.

[AnimalToyForum]

Today is launch day of our new gallery,'The Taxidermists' Tale'. Here are some more photos!