Adam Ferguson

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• you pass these giant kudus and just round the corner are the tsavo lions >
• we're accompanied by kate golembiewski from PR >
• true taxidermy is an art >
• the term they use now is parachute science >
• we currently have 245,000 mammal specimens in the collection >
• I've been here six years and we've been into the exhibit 3 times >
• I've seen that change in my time as a scientist >
• the field museum started as a result of the world fair in 1893 >
• there's indigenous knowledge and there's scientific knowledge >
• there are paintings of habits that no longer exist >
• i think the skins are in good shape >
• you don't need to wear a full hazmat bunny suit >
• at one point we had 6 taxidermists on staff >
• the biggest one we're concerned with is arsenic >
• maybe i should not be guessing as a scientist >
• part of my job as a collection manager is to protect this material, right? >
• they're starting to see a resurgence in taxidermy >
• that kind of interactive experience that was not around 50 years ago >