On the second floor we looked into the "hands-on" exhibition, which ranged from fossils and microscopes up to stuffed animals and birds and a live funnel-web spider, though he was too busy funneling webs to show his face.
This red kangaroo stands taller than six feet (and, I noted, has unfeasibly large testicles. My wifes's gonna kill me ar ar ar). The stuffed birds display included a set of drawers revealing row upon row of dead parrots (and now I can't help adding ex-parrots, expired, they have ceased to be) which I suppose means they exhibit them on a rotating basis but however you look at it, it's a bird mortuary and it's not really very nice.
The exhibit on spiders includes some Australian burrowing cockroaches like the one in the picture and some informative snippets like:
The Huntsman spider is notorious for getting into houses and cars in Sydney because it can squash it's body down into small spaces. The first an unsuspecting driver knows about the spider in his car is when it scuttles across the dashboard.
A Huntsman spider is like a slightly-thinner tarantula. And now I have something new to worry about when I go to bed, all's well here in the antipodes.
3 comments:
Did you tell Ella that all the animals died peacefully in their sleep (like we had to with stepdaughter at the Natural History Museum) or did you tell her the truth, ie they were brutally murdered for your entertainment?
That kangaroo doesn't look best pleased. I'd leg it if I were you.
Since you're on a big spending spree, can I interest you in a Russell Grant pub mirror?
Ar ar!!
~Lou xx
We left Ella in the capable hands of the nursery. When your daughter gets to two, Mrs Thistletwat, you'll discover the reason!
No interest in the Russell Grant mirror but would be interested in a walk-me-home-cheddar if you come across one. Ar ar.
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