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Botanical Displays
In this section you will find a wide variety of botanical displays to help students learn about plant adaptations and identification. Included are displays of leaf shapes and arrangements, stem adaptations, leaf venation, lichen forms, monocot and dicot characteristics, fern life cycles, poison ivy identification, comparisons of hardwoods and softwoods, fruit types, commercial grains and oak leaves and acorns. All botanical displays are mounted in glass-topped display cases.
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Tree Ring Kits and Tree Cross-Sections
Acorn Naturalists now offers a wide selection of tree limb cross sections. These quality rounds range in size from 2" to 5" across by 1/4"-1/2" thick and allow for clear reading of growth rings. Tree rings vary in size and appearance depending on growing conditions and species variations. Willow, ash, cottonwood are riparian species, tamarisk is an invasive species, oaks can be identified by their characteristic radial rays, pine and walnut and oak show classic seasonal dry/wet ring patterns. Tree rounds provide an ideal hands-on resource for introducing students to botany, forestry, dendrology and methods scientists use to determine past climatic conditions. Acorn Naturalists offers a varied selection of fourteen different tree rounds: six eastern/midwestern species are offered along with eight western species. Also available is a bark beetle life cycle demonstration kit and two tree round discovery kits (eastern and western).
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Owl Pellet Displays
Two displays are now available: Owl Pellets and their Prey provides a superb reference collection for students and teachers - perfect for discussions of predator-prey relationships. This mount includes a complete owl pellet, a partially dissected owl pellet showing skeletal remains, and skulls with mandibles of five common prey found in owl pellets (shrew, mouse, vole, rat, and pocket gopher) from pellet dissections. The other display, Owl Pellet Dissections features a complete owl pellet, a partially dissected pellet showing mammalian prey, and a partially dissected pellet showing avian remains, all sealed with casting acrylic and placed in a beautiful glass-topped display for years of use.
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Ecological Relationships Display
This fascinating display describes six relationships with their negative, beneficial, or neutral results. Includes cooperative and obligatory mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, competition, and neutralism as demonstrated by plant and insect examples.
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Feather Types Display
A colorful, educational display depicting the three basic feather types (vaned, semiplume and down) along with identifications of the vane, rachis and calamus sections of a vaned feather. Feathers are from commercially raised birds. Sealed in a 6 1-2" X 8-1/3 x 4” glass-topped display case.
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Scat Displays
Scat samples provide valuable clues both to the presence of an animal as well as diet. These unique collections of real scat samples features a mix of both invertebrate and vertebrate scat. Each specimen has been carefully freeze-dried all are sealed within glass-topped exhibit cases. Silhouettes of each animal appear alongside the scat sample.
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Glass-topped Riker Mount Display Cases
These durable glass-topped display cases offer protection for dried specimens, pressed flowers, seeds, bones from owl pellets, gemstones, fossils or feathers. Acorn Naturalists offers three styles of displays: standard 3/4" thick displays in four sizes, extra-depth 2" thick displays in three sizes, and sectional displays with two different trays.
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