Paul Rhymer with Robo-badger
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Creator: Vargas, Rick
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1989
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 98-015 Box 2
Paul Rhymer, Exhibits Specialist in Taxidermy at Exhibits Central, shows off the radio-controlled badger he created for Brian Miller, a post-doctoral fellow working at the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center (CRC) in Front Royal, VA. The "robo-badger" had been found as road-kill and mailed to Rhymer frozen, packed in dry ice from Washington state.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Featured in Torch, August 1989
Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 98-015 Box 2
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1989
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Front Royal (Va.)
89-12514-16
Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print