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Emma Burns
Curator, Natural Science
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Nightmares in a Museum
Our staff often get asked at Halloween what some of the scariest things in the museum are...
In the belly of a trout
A couple of keen outdoors men, Ray Webb and Terry Arthur, touch base with the Natural Science team semi-regularly; we enjoy hearing about their adventures in wild places around Otago. Central otago Landscape Image: Loganburn Reservoir | Astrid Erasmuson Last year they had a successful day brown trout fishing at Loganburn Reservoir, part of the upper tributary of the Taieri River, high in the Lammermoor Range. Terry bagged a five pound (2.2 kg) brown trout, and as they gutted and prepared the fish they found some interesting stomach contents. Crayfish Stomach contents of a large trout, caught by Terry Arthur |...
Tooth be or not tooth be?
Just like we do here at the Museum, the Otago Hospice shop occasionally gets strange items dropped off to them.