On Wednesday, Feb. 11th I went on my first field study with my Biology of Marine Mammals class. We visited the Zoological museum. This museum was really fun and interesting and is actually very popular here in Copenhagen.
The best part of this field study was that my teacher's friend works there and took us into the back rooms to see the skeletons that are not on display. These are used for studies instead of the museum exhibits. It was incredible. There were skeletons of right whales from as long ago as 1850! We saw the skeletons of porpoises, dolphins, polar bears, seals, walruses, orcas, norwales, beaked whales and countless others. The skull of the beaked whale was at least 3x my size!
After exploring that room of skeletons we went to the basement. That was where they kept the huge skeletons that don't fit upstairs. It was there that we saw the skeletons of a blue whale and a sperm whale, 2 of the biggest animals alive. It was incredible. I can't really even describe how big they are and unfortunately my camera died as we entered the basement.
After we finished looking at all the behind the scenes specimens we had some time in the museum. We walked around on our own for about and hour and then met at a group to discuss the marine mammal exhibits we saw and the physical adaptations we could see in the skeletons and models on display.
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