Vertebrates
The Animal Kingdom is made up of two main groups - animals with backbones (vertebrates) and animals without backbones (invertebrates). The vertebrates include fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals. The invertebrates, a very much larger group include insects, animals with shells (molluscs) and very many curious groups of land, freshwater and marine organisms.
Birds
The bird collection contains around 4,000 mounted birds, 2,000 cabinet skins and over 5,000 clutches of birds’ eggs. Most of the specimens are from Britain and Ireland. More than 900 of the mounted birds were prepared by the Belfast taxidermy firm Sheals, established in 1856 by James S...
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Mammals
The mammal collection contains over 2,000 specimens of animal skins, mounts and skeletal material, mainly from Northern Ireland. Among it is a small collection of Australian and Tasmanian animals collected by Professor Flynn, of Queens University Belfast, He was the father of the famous ac...
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