Day at the Museum (and C.K. Choi Building!): Part I

My biology 11 class recently took a fieldtrip to the Beatty Biodiversity Museum and C.K. Choi Building at the University of British Columbia. Above is me pictured with my favourite specimen that I encountered at the Beatty Biodiversity Museum, a mounted northern pintail duckling (Anas acuta).

Here is the famous blue whale (in this case, Balaenoptera musculus musculus) skeleton hanging in the Atrium at the Beatty Biodiversity Museum. Its pectoral flipper is homologous to a human's arm, as it contains the same bones as our arm, merely modified in the whale's case into a flipper, as a result of their common ancestor with us also having the same bones as both us and whales do in their forelimbs.

   Here is the tooth of an extinct "megalodon" shark (Charcharodon megalodon).

The fossilised foot of the dinosaur Lambeosaurus.

My hair being chewed on by a sable antelope (Hippotragus niger spp.). Just kidding, it was mounted and behind glass!

Me with a mounted penguin (family
Spheniscidae), situated nearby the mounted sable antelope in the Museum.



Me with, from left to right, a preserved elephant shrew, baby crocodillian, and bat (family Macroscelididae, order Crocodilia, and order Chiroptera, respectively).

Me with the preserved wrasses and parrotfishes (families listed above).

And now for a picture from the C.K. Choi Building:

One of my partners in the biology 11 UBC fieldtrip scavenger hunt standing in front of one of the C.K. Choi Building's recycled brick walls.