Digital specimens of the National Animal Museum

The Digital Botanical Herbarium of the Institute of Zoology is a subordinate entity of the Botanical Herbarium of the National Animal Museum, and it is an institution with teenagers as the main body. Under the background of global biological specimen informatization, the establishment of digital specimen museum is to meet the needs of the national zoological museum and China animal specimen informatization. Digital herbarium is the center for storing and publishing animal specimen information. Its main responsibility is to directly participate in the information construction project of animal specimens, centrally process, back up, feedback and publish animal specimen information, and provide technical support for all kinds of herbarium. In order to improve the construction of digital herbarium and promote the digitalization of animal specimen information in China, the members of digital herbarium have made great efforts and made outstanding achievements.

hold an exhibition

On May 2 1 2007, the National Animal Museum in Beijing Olympic Village recently welcomed its first exhibition-wildlife photography exhibition. As part of the Public Science Day of China Academy of Sciences, the exhibition exhibited hundreds of excellent photos of wildlife photographers from all over China. The exhibition is divided into three parts: birds, insects and African wildlife. Among them, the photos displayed in the "African Wildlife" exhibition area were carefully produced by Mr. Wu Changyun, a famous photographer in China and former editor-in-chief of Photography in China, who went to Mala, Massai, Africa and Serengeti, Tanzania five times from 2002 to 2007. In his works, elegant giraffe, lively and dexterous Thomson gazelle, dazzling scarlet stork, fierce and gentle lioness ... their images are vividly portrayed and their charm is vividly displayed, giving viewers a super shocking visual effect. In the insect photography exhibition area, the audience can see ephemera courtship, slim damselflies molting and mantis catching insects, showing the magnificence and colorful life. The bird photography exhibition area not only shows the vivid images of various rare birds at home and abroad, but also shows the worrying living conditions of birds, such as the killing of raptors, the ruthless destruction of habitats, the oil pollution of rivers and lakes on which waterfowl depend and the serious pollution of chemical toxins, which aroused people's enthusiasm for caring for animals and protecting the environment.