Ungulates Gallery at PMNH continues to fascinate students

With several visitor everyday to explore different aspects of the world of natural history

ISLAMABAD: The newly opened ‘Ungulates Gallery’ at the Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH) is fascinating several students, families and researchers who are visiting the museum in large numbers daily especially on weekends.

Several visitors, especially children, throng the variety of galleries of the museum daily to explore different aspects of the world of natural history.

According to the PMNH Associate Curator and Mammals Specialist Muhammad Asif Khan, Pakistan has around 200 species of ungulates which are normally known as ‘big mammals’ among which a few are critically endangered. PMNH is playing a vital role in the preservation of the rare species such as the brown and black bears, the snow leopard, and the yak.

The gallery has so far displayed around 25 mammal specimens including Nilgai (blue bull — Asian Antelope), the common leopard, sheep, blackbuck, Markhor, Asiatic jackal, grey goral as well as brown and black bears and yak and snow leopard etc.

The associate curator, while talking to the media, said that the museum was diligently working on preserving endangered mammals to transfer the knowledge about these natural assets to the next generation.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 2^nd, 2019.