For today’s Exhibit of the Day, let’s check out the Hunting Dog Diorama! This scene, which takes place on the Serengeti Plain in northern Tanzania, depicts a group of these predatory dogs with their gaze fixed on a distant zebra. African hunting dogs (Lycaon pictus) are some of the continent’s most formidable predators: Thanks to their teamwork, these carnivores have a hunting success rate of more than 70 percent—far higher than that of lions or leopards.
As with all of the Museum’s habitat dioramas, this scene is a re-creation based on the meticulous observations of scientists in the field in the early twentieth century and the onsite sketches and photographs of the artists who accompanied them. You can see this diorama in the Museum’s Hall of African Mammals! Plan your visit.
@confirmedgeckos sent us a Druid. Downside is, she is always in wild shape form.
Nugs was a rescue that my wife took in. She is very happy now, when we got her she had no claws left from stuck shed. He got a lot of bugs for these photos.
small ethel cain diorama update! this one is based on house in nebraska, in my mind
added a few thematically appropriate film posters (that are also not anachronistic bc this is set in 1991 i believe)! also gonna make some miniature polaroids + cigarettes. i feel they are smokers