List of mammal species on exhibit 8/12/19 (all taxidermies) Corridor leading into main mammal hall: Human Domestic dog Domestic horse Bornean orangutan Bat eared fox Prehensile-tailed porcupine Striped hog-nosed skunk Common shrew Yellow footed rock wallaby Koala Matschie's tree kangaroo Tasmanian devil Rufous rat kangaroo Eastern quoll Common spotted cuscus Common wombat Thylacine Numbat Brush-tailed possum Eastern gray kangaroo Yapok Virginia opossum Platypus Short beaked echidna Pink fairy armadillo Southern tamandua Giant anteater Linnaeus's two toed sloth Silky anteater Giant armadillo Brazilian three banded armadillo Giant golden mole Giant otter shrew Russian desman Eurasian pygmy shrew Capybara Alpine marmot Norway lemming Lesser Egyptian jerboa European beaver Pallas' squirrel Tree pangolin Ground pangolin Indian flying fox Common pipistrelle Linnaeus' false vampire bat Common vampire bat Philippine colugo Spear-nosed bat Cheetah Lion Tiger Jaguar Snow leopard Maned wolf Ethiopian wolf Painted wolf Striped hyena Grizzly bear Red panda Giant panda Northern raccoon Sloth bear South American coati Warthog Polar bear African civet Pine marten Indian grey mongoose Siberian weasel Banded mongoose Wolverine African linsang Eurasian otter Large spotted genet Egyptian mongoose Mammal hall African elephant Rock hyrax Southern white rhino Dugong Blue whale Bowhead whale North Atlantic right whale Salt's dik-dik Buru babirusa Domestic sheep Red deer Hippopotamus Water chevrotain Pygmy hippo Sitatunga Chinese water deer Nile lechwe Dall sheep Caribou Musk ox Fallow deer Eastern bongo Southern pudu Suni antelope Indian spotted chevrotain Blue duiker Wild boar Pygmy hog European bison Collared peccary Giant forest hog Moose Blesbok Gerenuk Black wildebeest Blue wildebeest Impala Lesser kudu Grimm's duiker Kirk's dik-dik Thomson's gazelle Pronghorn Blackbuck Springbok Arabian oryx Bactrian camel Addax Saiga Dorcas gazelle Asian elephant Sperm whale Gray whale Tree hyrax spp. Bush hyrax Malayan tapir Mountain zebra Javan rhino Brazilian tapir Sumatran rhino Black rhino Indian rhino Kiang Przewalski's horse Burchell's zebra Donkey Harp seal Northern fur seal Hooded seal Sea otter West Indian manatee Plumbeous dolphin Hourglass dolphin Common dolphin White-beaked dolphin Atlantic white sided dolphin Striped dolphin Commerson's dolphin Peale's dolphin Spinner dolphin Bottlenose dolphin Slender beaked dolphin Spinner dolphin Beluga whale Amazon river dolphin Killer whale Risso's dolphin Sowerby's beaked whale Long-finned pilot whale Pygmy sperm whale Narwhal Graffman's dolphin Ganges river dolphin Crabeater seal Harbour porpoise Spirit collection American black bear Lichtenstein's hartebeest Hintze hall Lion tailed macaque Common eland Himalayan striped squirrel Common noctule Domestic cat North American porcupine White fronted langur Hose's langur Brown rat Balearic Islands cave goat Pichi Chimpanzee Giraffe Western lowland gorilla Red fox Nubian ibex European hare Red handed howler monkey
Excellent list! Only issue I have is that the whales and dolphins are pretty much all models rather than taxidermies. But I think you have correctly identified everything that's there. I did make a list a few years back of all tetrapod species on permanent display (excluding models) which would be out of date so this is useful!
I think there's a few ID errors in this lot - I'll check my notes anon - but broadly speaking v.good work
Interesting to note that this elephant is "Jung Pershad" who lived at London Zoo for almost twenty years:- from 17th May 1876 until 8th March 1896
Wow! that must have been a long list! I did list almost all the birds mentioned but couldn't quite finish up on one of the corners of the Bird section. Frustratingly there isn't any ID for the pheasant and Procellariiform displays, but I did a bit of digging and found that the site actually mentioned all the species on there.
It wouldn't be your fault entirely if there are any wrong. The displays are ancient and mammal taxonomy is so fluid. I expect there are some mislabelled specimens (e.g. the yapok looks suspiciously like a lutrine opossum - maybe because it's so faded).
Yeah I have no idea why they would not display labels for those beautiful displays. It just gives the impression that they don't care about the science, only the art (both are important!). The list turned out to be 4 pages using tiny text and several columns, and I know I missed some that I found tucked away in certain parts of the museum since I made the list. I can't attach it here unfortunately but it's much the same as yours except the broader taxonomic focus and including (long) extinct species too.
Oh right. The fading was almost the source of a few misidentifications on my part, actually. When I passed the Giant Panda, I though : that's strange, I've never seen Kermode bears in the gallery; they must have updated it! I also thought a few of the kangaroo specimens and the tiger were albino/white
It's a sort of human cut in half to reveal the skeleton with a bit of skin. Not a taxidermy, but I can't remember if it is a real skeleton or not.
I assume you're referring to the comparative anatomy display of a human skeleton and horse skeleton ? This is a very old exhibit and dates back to late Nineteenth Century when William Henry Flower was director of the museum.
Wow! You can see it in the horse's hair, but how do you know all this? Is this incredible knowledge a result of reading many books on the history of the zoo and the NHM? By the way I just bought a book about London zoo's history so fingers crossed I will have read it over the holidays.
I was at the NHM today. Much of the marine and 'hoofed mammal' area has been closed off, including the rainforest area. I wanted to check if it still had an okapi, which wasn't in amur leopard's list. The museum was very busy due to the school holidays
It was closed during my visit a week or so ago as well. Very disappointing especially as this creates bigger crowds in the mammal and bird halls without them filtering out into the larger hall.
