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Royal Ontario Museum New Bloodsucker exhibit through March 2020

Discussion in 'Canada' started by DavidBrown, 2 Dec 2019.

  1. DavidBrown

    DavidBrown Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Do any Zoochatters live in the vicinity of the Royal Ontario Museum? There is an exhibit about bloodsucking animals that runs through March 2020 that sounds very cool. It has live animals like lampreys, leeches, and mosquitoes and models and taxidermy of chupacabras and vampire bats.


    Why the World Needs Bloodsucking Creatures | Science | Smithsonian
     
    DavidBrown, 2 Dec 2019
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    I do. I'll get my mom to take me there.
     
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    DavidBrown Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    If you go, would love a review of the exhibit. It sounds like a cool concept.
     
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    TZDugong Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I will probably see this as well, seeing as I live in the area.
     
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    DesertRhino150 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Was just looking for more information about this exhibition, and found a YouTube video that was released around its opening time. The most interesting thing I noticed was that, as well as live exhibitions of the leeches, mosquitos and sea lampreys mentioned earlier, there is also footage of an exhibit containing live ticks - something I have personally never seen before.

    The video is included below, with the live ticks appearing around the 17-18 second mark:
     
    DesertRhino150, 15 Feb 2020
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    kingoffreaks Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    These are the line animals I saw when I went

    European Medicinal Leech - Hirudo verbana
    North American Medicinal Leech - Macrobdella decora
    Ornate Turtle Leech - Placobdella ornate

    Wood Tick
    Yellow Fever Mosquito - Aedes aegypti

    Sea Lamprey Petromyzon marinus

    There may have been another species of rock as well.
     
    kingoffreaks, 19 Feb 2020
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