The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum (by William)

I recently visited the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum two times.  There are many exhibitions to explore and the information is abundant.  The following are some of my favorite exhibits. 

 

The Nature Lab consists of many hands-on projects including the surviving and thriving game, and drawing animals.  There is the story of P-22, the puma who controls Griffith Park.  P-22 had to cross two freeways to get to the park.  One night, zoologists found him and gave him a numbness shot to put him to sleep.  They did blood test, and gave P-22 a collar to track him down.  Later he woke up and scampered away.  Now he is the king of Griffith Park.  I think P-22 is very brave.

P-22's Photo by Steve Winter (from Internet)

The Hall of North American Mammals is amazing.  The displays were made very real.  The models are beautiful and the backgrounds are very detailed.  My favorite display was the Bison Display, there were strong bison roaming and the scene was at Wyoming on the wide prairie.  

The Gem and Mineral Hall is filled with sparking and delicate gem stones.  I also had the chance to touch real jade and a meteorite which is much older than the earth.  The gems and minerals are the treasures of mankind and wonders of the mother land.

The Butterfly Pavilion is a temporary exhibit due to weather conditions.  It is filled with gracious butterflies, puny aphids, and pretty ladybugs.  The monarchs, queens, mourning cloaks, while peacocks, swallowtails, and zebra longwings had a flurry of colors.  The butterflies of different species can mate if they want to, but their hatchlings will not reproduce.

A white peacock landed on me

 Extreme Mammals is a temporary exhibit as well.  It talks about what makes some mammals extreme.  For example, we are extreme for our huge brains.  Have you heard of the Indricotherium, Thylacoleo Carnifex, or the Bramatherium Megacephalum?  All of these extinct mammals have features that made them extreme.  Indricotherium is the largest mammal that ever lived, Thylacoleo Carnifex is a mammal had the strongest bite, and Bramatherium Megacephalum looked like a beaver that had horns.  The used the horns to burrow. 

The museum is like a 3D encyclopedia where you can touch pieces of history.  You can see the actual sizes of animals, the glows of gemstones, and feel humble and small.  

P.S. Mom didn't want to show my face, so I'm covered by PVZ2 Melon-Pult.