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A Giraffe in the Botanic Garden of Pisa (Tuscany, Northern Italy)
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Bedini, Gianni Farina, Simone |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Description | The Botanic Garden of Pisa was established in 1543 as a teaching tool and research facility. As with the vast majority of its sister institutions, it focuses on plant collections. However, for a short time in the first half of the XIX century, the Botanic Garden exhibited a living giraffe, a cow, and a calf. Due to the transient nature of the exhibition, it could have easily gone unnoticed but for the fortuitous representation of the animals in a drawing of the same period and for sparse notes archived in the libraries of Pisa University. Furthermore, a XIX-century publication on the morphological and behavioural traits of three antelopes indirectly suggests that those animals had been kept in the Botanic Garden for research purposes. This paper presents the evidence of the living animal display in the Botanic Garden of Pisa and the context in which it was collected. |
| Ending Page | 176 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| Starting Page | 170 |
| e-ISSN | 26735636 |
| DOI | 10.3390/jzbg3020014 |
| Journal | Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2022-04-12 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens Botanic Gardens Zoological Gardens Living Animal Exhibition Anatomical Preparations |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
