Collecting whales: processes and biases in Nordic museum collections
Whales are unique museum objects that have entered collections in many ways and for different reasons. This work studies three Nordic natural history museum collections in Norway and Denmark with more than 2,500 whale specimens in total, and gathers the available biological and collection data on th...
Main Author: | Lene Liebe Delsett |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2024-01-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/16794.pdf |
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