[NHCOLL-L:5772] RE: poor rhinos - a better link

[Bryant, James]

I apologize for what may have come through as a bad link in the earlier posting. It's a rather brief article, but after the thefts at the Ipswich Museums and elsewhere, I thought it was worth noting. See http://www.thelocal.ch/2084/20111220/

With respect to these kinds of thefts (and as a footnote to this article), I recall that back in the 1970s, a tiger skin mounted in a leaping pose was displayed without a protective case at the entrance to the gift shop at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. Its whiskers kept disappearing. It was eventually determined that certain Asian traditional medicines used tiger whiskers. The whickers were all replaced with artificial copies; they kept disappearing, anyway.

From: Bryant, James
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:01 PM
To: nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu
Subject: poor rhinos

This came via the AAM Dispatches from the Future of Museums -
Swiss museum cuts off rhino horns to prevent theft <http://strongmail.multiview.com:80/track?type=click&mailingid=2021214&messageid=2021214&databaseid=Mailing.DS21214.2021214.6651&serial=1245170446&emailid=jbryant@riversideca.gov&userid=1955502&extra=&&&2121&&&http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4ef20d48bbacc>
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A Swiss museum has taken the drastic step of replacing the horns of its rhinoceroses with fake ones to deter thieves fuelling a lucrative global trade, curators said recently. Staff at Bern's Natural History Museum cut off the horns of its six display animals and put crude wooden ones in their place amid concerns they would be targeted. Curators acted after hearing of horn thefts at museums across Europe. More<http://strongmail.multiview.com:80/track?type=click&mailingid=2021214&messageid=2021214&databaseid=Mailing.DS21214.2021214.6651&serial=1245170446&emailid=jbryant@riversideca.gov&userid=1955502&extra=&&&2126&&&http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4ef20d48bbacc>

James M. Bryant
Curator of Natural History
Museum Department, City of Riverside
3580 Mission Inn Avenue
Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 826-5273
(951) 369-4970 FAX
jbryant at riversideca.gov<mailto:jbryant at riversideca.gov>
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