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Uploaded by LearnFree2007 on Aug 21, 2008
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This is Part 2 of my visit to Tring Museum.
I found it just as magical now as I did on my first school trip 35 years ago.
I hope you enjoy the video and one day visit this vast collection.
To see these animals close up thrills adults and children alike.
An inspired collection started by one man
Walter Rothschild was the firstborn son and heir of Lord Nathan Rothschild, the first Jewish peer in England. At the age of seven, he declared that he would run a zoological museum. As a child, he collected insects, butterflies and animals. Among his pets at the family home in Tring Park were kangaroos and exotic birds. At 21, he reluctantly began working for the family bank. His parents established a zoological museum as compensation, and footed the bill for expeditions all over the world to seek out animals.
Rothschild was 6.3 ft. tall and very shy, but he had his photograph taken riding on a giant turtle, and drove a carriage harnassed to 6 zebras to Buckingham Palace to prove that zebras could be tamed.
Rothschild studied zoology at Magdalene College, Cambridge and worked for the family firm of N M Rothschild & Sons in London from 1889 to 1908. Meeting Albert C. L. G. Günther sparked his interest in the taxonomy of birds and butterflies.
As the first to describe a certain subspecies of giraffe with five horns instead of two, the Giraffa camelopardis rothschildi was named after him. [1] It is the most endangered of the nine subspecies, also known as the Ugandan or Baringo Giraffe.[citation needed] Another 153 insects, 58 birds, 17 mammals, 3 fish, 3 spiders, 2 reptiles , 1 milliped and 1 worm also carry his name.
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OrchidEstateAgents 8 months ago
There is also an impressive natural history museum in France, focussed on zoology. My film my fit to yours...
wirthstef 11 months ago