NHM mammal list

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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
 
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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 :)
 
Mo Hassan said:
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!
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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.
 
amur leopard said:
Oh sorry - I did try and be as accurate as possible :(
Thanks :)
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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).
 
amur leopard said:
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.
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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.
 
Mo Hassan said:
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).
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TeaLovingDave said:
Oh don't worry - if I recall correctly it's ID errors on their part.
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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 :D
 
Chlidonias said:
That can't be right. These are mannequins/models?
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amur leopard said:
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.
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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.
 
Tim May said:
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.
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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
 
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Dassie rat said:
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
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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.
 
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