國立臺灣大學動物博物館
Museum of Zoology, Life Science Building, 1 Roosevelt Rd. Sec. 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan
10:30-16:30
The Museum of Zoology, National Taiwan University has been gathering animal specimens since the Japanese colonial era. The Japanese Professor Bunichiro Aoki and Kyosuke Hirasaka collected mammals and birds, and shells respectively in Taiwan and neighboring areas.
After the Japanese had retreated in 1945, the collection continued to expand in quantity and in diversity, contingent on the research interest of individual faculty members. Prof. You-Hsieh Wang and Ching-Jang Wang gathered reptiles. Fishes were collected by Prof. Jun-Sheng Liang and Prof. Shih-Chieh Shen. Prof. Shen, in particular, has devoted his whole career to study ichthyology, consequently leading to the publication of Fishes of Taiwan. In recent years, Prof. Ling-Ling Lee added a series of bat specimens and Prof. Jiun-Hong Chen accumulated precious annelid specimens, respectively.
When the Life Science Building was completed in 1998, the specimens were moved from Building No.1 to Life Science Building subsequently. Some of the specimens have been on display in the exhibit hall on the first floor of the Life Science Building. At present, a special exhibition of A New Experience of Life Science is held in the hall. The exhibits, including toothed whales, baleen whales, Asian elephants, and several birds are organized and displayed under the bioacoustics theme. The theme is not only to tell about the animals' sounds, their habitats and habits, but also to show the physical properties and the communicational function of their sounds. This special exhibition aims to convey a new impression on the domains and research attributes of life science.
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