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12-13-2018, 05:54 AM( This post was last modified: 12-13-2018, 07:20 AM by peter )
(12-07-2018, 11:05 AM)peter Wrote: Many thanks for the answers, Olga.
I hope you understand that the points I mentioned in my previous post were not mine. They were offered by people I know. They're not really interested in the natural world. Those who are, will come no matter what. I'll find some people interested in one of the tours you offer sooner or later.
As to the skulls. I read a book written by Charly Russell called 'Grizzly Heart'. It was published in 2002. Charly, a brown bear authority, visited Russia to raise orphaned young brown bears in Kamchatka. Before he could start work, he needed permission from authorities working for an institute dedicated to conservation in Chabarowsk. Before they talked about his project, he was shown an enormous collection of tiger and bear skulls by Dr. Juri Dunishenko and Dr. Alexander Khulikov. He wrote the collection was enormous.
I also know there is a museum or institute in Vladivostok that has tiger and bear skulls. It also has a famous diorama showing a brown bear and a tiger.
I wrote to Dr. Dale Miquelle about tiger skulls some years ago. He said he didn't know anything about the institutes in Chabarowsk and Vladivostok. He was interested, but I don't think he can help out.
I'll try to find the correct names of both institutes.
FOLLOW-UP
I did a lot of digging and came up with these two museums in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok:
Khabarovsk: Regional Lore Museum (or a zoological museum of a university in that city) Vladivostok: Arseniev State Museum of Primorsky Region
I reread part of the book 'Grizzly Heart' I mentioned before. It was published in 2002, but Charly Russell and co-author Maureen Enns visited Khabarowsk in 1994 or 1995 to talk to Dr. Juri Dunishenko and Dr. Alexander Khulikov. I couldn't find the name of the institute they visited to talk to Dunishenko and Khulikov, but they wrote it was an important scientific institute with more than 400 Amur tiger skulls.
I hope you can make out which scientific institute they visited in 1994-1995, Olga. If not, we might try to contact Russell and Enns trough a Canadian (British Columbia?) website. There has to be a way to find out which institute they visited in Khabarovsk.
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