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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO
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. In a typical scene in the Libyan Desertare shown several addax, which possessspirally twisted horns, also scimitar-hornedwhite oryx, and addra gazelles. The Gorilla family is of particular sig-nificance to human beings, because thesegreat apes are perhaps the most like man ofall the living animals. They are shown herein a clearing in the dense rain-forest of thekivu .Mountains, an exact reproduction oftheir natural habitat. MEZZANINE, AKELEY AFRICAN HALL (Index Plan, p. 18, Third Floor, Hall 13)The first group on the right shows the Klip-springer, the small, rock-climbing antelopein the right background. East African Ba-boons are in the right foreground, and apair of Mountain Reedbuck appears on theleft. Among the rocks in the left foregroundmay be discovered a hyrax, or cony. The next is the Cheetah Group, whichshows a pair of these fast running cats in-specting a family of nyalas which have justemerged from the forest. This scene is nearthe lower Zambesi River in Mozambique. I102I
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THE REAR GUARD. Detail from the great elephant group in the Akeley African Hall. Inevery herd of elephants, in the wild condition at least, one animal takes the responsibility ofwheeling about at frequent intervals to see that all is well behind. The young male shown aboveis mounted in this position in the elephant herd. It was collected by John T. .McCutcheon in 1910when he was in the field with Carl Akeley LIO33