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<p class="MsoNormal">We have a very large taxidermy collection. A huge portion of the collection is made up of should mounts that rarely make an appearance in the exhibit galleries. Most of the specimens were donated to the museum in the 1960’s and 1970’s
by local big game hunters. The museum is exploring its options to deaccession this part of our collection but we are also interesting in knowing if taxidermy mounts are viable specimens for DNA sampling. If so, what is the best way to approach this? A lock
of fur? A skin sample? Etc. There are significant African and Asian animals represented in the collection and if they can provide any useful data for future use, we would like to do all that we can to preserve the data without storing a few hundred shoulder
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any advice on the matter will be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">KAREN MORTON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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