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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jack Dura

Tigers, zebras and other taxidermy animals will get new homes after health concerns kept them hidden

Taxidermy Museum-Closed - (Great Plains Zoo)

Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, zebras and dozens of other taxidermy animals will move to new homes after concerns about arsenic exposure forced the closure of the South Dakota museum where they had been displayed for decades.

The Delbridge Museum of Natural History at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls closed in August 2023 after testing showed potentially hazardous levels of arsenic present in 80% of the specimens of the Brockhouse Collection.

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