WINTER FUR N FEATHERS 



A combined Featured Exhibit 

 and Museum Journey 

 for the whole family! 



For those who have never had an op- 

 portunity to feel the skin of an ele- 

 phant, gorilla, zebra, mink, black bear, 

 moose, or white-tailed deer, Chicago 

 Natural History Museum's featured ex- 

 hibit for December — "Winter Fur 'N 

 Feathers" — is a holiday "must." 



For the first time, the popular Mu- 

 seum Journeys for children have been 

 combined with the exhibit-of-the-month 

 to make a unique holiday activity for the 

 whole family. In it, animal coats that 

 are adapted to meet different climatic 

 and seasonal conditions will be shown, 

 and samples of many kinds of skin and 

 fur provided for visitors to touch. 



To learn more about "Winter Fur 'N 

 Feathers," visitors entering the Museum 

 may pick up their Journey instructions 

 at the Information Desk and then pro- 

 ceed to Hall 18 on the first floor, where 

 a new three-screen exhibit has been es- 

 pecially prepared for December's com- 

 bined program. 



The exhibit draws on the Museum's 

 comprehensive research collection of bird 

 and mammal skins, which are usually 

 displayed only once a year, on Museum 

 Members' Night. In the first exhibit 

 screen, with a background of yellow 

 and a blazing orange sun, are skins of 

 some of the mammals that have adapted 

 to tropical living by having very short 

 fur, such as the leopard and zebra, or 

 very little hair, such as the elephant, 

 whose hair is mostly concentrated in a 

 tuft on his tail. In a second exhibit case, 

 a blue background and red sun indicate 

 a northern climate. Among the many 

 animal coverings from cold regions dis- 

 played here are the pelt of a snow leop- 

 ard from high in the Himalayas and the 

 fluffy plumage of the Arctic snowy owl. 

 Still a third exhibit screen shows the con- 

 trast between the winter and summer 

 furs and plumage of animals living in 

 temperate climates with seasonal changes. 

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