Taxidermy Coati and Ocelot (from Roger Williams Park Zoo Menagerie)

Are these historical or something? That ocelot is pretty yikes!

@TinoPup the animals apparently lived at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in the old menagerie building from the late 1800s, until they died and their bodies were donated to the museum. Some of the other taxidermy animals, like the lions in one of my other photos, came from the zoo as well. The craftsmanship of preserving their bodies could definitely have been better executed, to say the least…

@ZooElephantsMan That's really interesting. But yeah, wow at the taxidermy. I stopped at several tiny natural history museums in new england over the summer and they all had extremely well done, realistic work from the same time period!

wait the zoo itself is that old? holy cow

@pichu It's the third-oldest in the USA.

@pichu There's unfortunately little left of the historic parts, compared to Philly, Bronx, etc Which probably contributes to the little attention it gets for its age.

ok that makes more sense to why this fact is forgotten