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Scientific Name: Macropus rufus

Age [Sex]: Adult [M]

Locality: Burke Developmental Road, 97 km N of Cloncurry

Higher Geography: Australia, Australia, Queensland

Collection Date: 16 August 1981

Collector Name [Number]: Ray Bandar - RB4884; 94

Notes: Skull. Cataloged for the 2014 Skulls exhibit. Kangaroos chop and grind grass with their forward molars. As these molars are worn down, they fall out. Rear molars migrate forward to replace them.

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Sumatran orangutan / CAS:MAM:27887

Scientific Name: Pongo abelii, originally classified Pongo pygmaeus abelii

Age [Sex]: Adult [M]

Collection Date: Likely between 1880-1920

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Mandrill / CAS-MAM 15279

Scientific name: Mandrillus sphinx

Collection date: 1969

Notes: Complete skeleton. Entirely fused vertebrae.

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Nyala / CAS:MAM:27410

Scientific Name: Tragelaphus angasii

Age [Sex]: Adult [M]

Collection Date: May 2003

Locality: Hluhluwe Game Reserve.

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