Brain Scoop: The ‘Sistine Chapel of Taxidermy’ – Conserving Akeley’s Elephants

 

The Brain Scoop has an episode about the 100+ year old elephants at the Field Museum in Stanley Field Hall.  They were created by Carl Akeley and his wife Delia way back in the early 1900s.  A previous episodes from 2013 are here and here.

 

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