Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker

by Chuck (Charles H.) Warner and Charles H. Warner

Book Overview

Every day, in natural history museums all across the country, colonies of dermestid beetles diligently devour the decaying flesh off of animal skeletons that are destined for the museum's specimen collection. That time-saving process was developed and perfected at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum by Charles D. Bunker, a lowly assistant taxidermist who would rise to become the curator of recent vertebrates and who made an indelible mark...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700627731
• ISBN13: 9780700627738
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"