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    Tuna fish by Kale Constantine-Powels

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    • leedsmuseums Welcome to the Life on Earth Gallery at Leeds City Museum. I am Kale Constantine-Powels and I will be talking about the Northern blue fin tuna fish. To find it look for the huge glass display case in the middle of the gallery, it’s pretty hard to miss! It’s one of the largest bony fish and throughout history it has always been eaten by people, it is featured on the reverse of the Croatian coin, it can dive up to a total depth of 1000 meters. It is silver on the top and dark blue on the bottom, this helps it become camouflaged from above and below. Because of excessive fishing this species is now endangered. I chose this object because I think it looks awesome and will probably look even better with its scales, and because it is in the endangered species case it makes me feel like we should be doing something for the planet.
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    Yak or bull?! by Erin Fuller, Poppy Tidswell and Olivia Atherton

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    • leedsmuseums ‘Hi Erin’ ‘Hi Poppy’ ‘Have you seen the yak in the Life on Earth Gallery?’ ‘No I didn’t see a yak, where is it?’ ‘Behind you!’ ‘Oh this? I thought it was a bull!’ ‘Well there is an interesting story behind that!’ ‘Really?’ ‘Yeah, an explorer from England travelled to Nepal in Asia and killed this yak. He then dragged it across the border so he wouldn’t be convicted for illegally killing it, as it was a sacred animal in Nepal. On his return to England it was stuffed, but no one knew how yaks really looked so they stuffed it like a bull. Hence how you mistook it for a bull!’ ‘That is really interesting!’
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    Giant Panda by Belinda Li

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    • leedsmuseums Welcome to the Life on Earth Gallery. Find the Giant Panda in the endangered species case, all the animals in this case are endangered. This particular Giant Panda was named Grandma, we think because of her docile nature. She died in 1939, shortly after being transported from China to London zoo. Her cause of death was pneumonia although incidentally she may have eaten through her shipping crate during her travels. The thorough autopsy of Grandma contributed greatly to our knowledge of Giant Panda anatomy. There are only about 1800 pandas left in the world.
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