Show A18 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday November 162003 Maunra Kraals ffeatiaaired smroaDD m iniew MD Smithsonian museum puts taxidermist art on display - The new exhibition contains II fossils and 274 preserved animals in dynamic displays as they would have been seen in life "Children of all ages will be very pleased" said A WASHINGTON (AIM lowering moose stands nose Id nose with a lurry lililc pika A porcupine huddles nearby in u child level display Around a corner a vampire bal sets ' ' toolli lo a m a sleeping! sci- entist's loot A spectacu- lar display of the taxidermist's art went tin public Saturday when the' Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural His- - ““fin “ Lawrence “We don’t want to show animals in the dullest moment of their lives as most museums ' doA V --- r '- - i - Robert Sullivan ——— lory opened its new mammal hall "This hall is about us" said Robert Sullivan associate ' ' director of the museum “Everyone who visits this hull is a mammal a successfully adapted mammal' Small head of the Smithson- jail Institution A pair of ' lions attacks a iwater buffalo V ’ A giraffe front legs splayed stretches for a drink of water ' while a second reaches an - impressive tongue upward to pull in some : leaves fora meal Recalling a real incidcnta vampire hut rests on a model of the scientist's fool where a live bal once feasted — a display Sullivan expects young- - ' ' A giraffe stretches Washington A spectacular display of the taxidermist's art opened slers lo love “because it will gross out their parents” In the arctic section startled viewers suddenlysee a polar hear looking down from ' above while in the African savanna a hippo yawns displaying a mouthful that would traumatize an orthodontist "We're setting a new stan- - : dard in taxidermy here'! said Sullivan explaining that museum scientists told their taxidermists' “We don't want Ur show animals in thc dullest ' moment of their lives as most museiiiiis ' The massi vc moose seems almost to smile as he ponders a shelf holding the little pika ? a mountain creature some- - : times called a cock rabbit ' Below a jittle mole rests atop a granite block that Sulljvan i do' - -- APphotp Recalling a real incident a stuffed vampire bat rests on a model of a sleeping scientists foot where a live bat once feasted in this undated photo' of an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington s A f i Jared lost pounds then his anonymity : TAMPA Fla ( AP) — Like many famous people: Jared ' Fogle rarely gets through a " meal in a restaurant without pounds and couldn't walk across his apahment without getting winded Thanks td Subway he's visit-all 50 stales and several -' ed beingintemipted by themrxxle a Zaihboni ai an :' countries ing people' introducing ' " "NHL game waved the great selves flag to start a NASCAR race Fogle is“Jared the Subway ' lost he because famous and chatted with former football Guy" 245 pounds' a few years ago by - greaLs bn the “NFL Todays show on CBS even trading eating Subway subs and not ' much else Instantly recognizautographs with former Miami able now from his TV cbnuner-Dolphins quarteibackDan larino ' rials for the sandwich maker Cbie time he and wife Eliza- bits evolv ed from unw itting ' helh a pediatricnursestbpped to ynpeihing part4imecelebrit ' of a icml making a in at the bar of the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills Cidif comfortable living traveling ' around w ith his old ftfFinch andnotked actors Ben Aflleck and Matt Damon looking ov er waist jeans and telling his and whispering "I could tell Bne was recently m trm n thev were sort pf talking about for a Subw ay -- sponsored Amerime hccause l heard Subway can Heart Association walk and mentioned a couple different poketo xdxs4 children about Umev' “It was a trip: nutntfrjo He stopped at a pan-cawas wife bouse for breakfast and freaking ouL" My Thir National ended upsigning autographs Enquirer tried to dig up some dirt on him He's' and ebaning with other patrons heen grxifed on by Seinfeld arid waitresses A truck driver Lenoand Letterman and fom Ohio named Sev e told unds he spoofed on “Samrday Night f Rigle pipped and stops at Subway five tjmes Live" "'South Parkand in the latest Aieoiri Povvers movie a week: That's great Jared the said He's the subject of Internet keep eating Subway Guy rumers that he has AIDS or thrive subs r and go light on ' the cheexeand mayo gained all the weight hade Il doles get a little r4a after Fogle said he gets a good awhile he acknowledged hav- laugh from most of die talk He's been in the public eye kng ing tri be “oh- in public all die time especially frraguy who enough nrw id know dial a spent so many yeas a an obee comes with die lexriuiry Fogle's skryiswell-dricu- -' person doing hS hest not to be mentod Tie rotund Indianaponreiced " lis native went off locnllege in But Fogle an Indiana University graduate who briefly had a BkKnsiigum and in his dmd real job at an airline before the yea- loci anapartment next (kwr to a campus Subway stive Subway gig look oft know In March 199H he aaned a diet this won't last forever His 15 ' he were of to a mmuies turkey siii haked supposed up a kng time ago Lays potato chips and a diet soda for lunch and a forx4oig “If ftoople didn't give a ' damn 1 wouldn't be in the posi-- veggie sub for dinner No uon I'm in” Fogle said “I try ' cheee no maya no oiL Before kng he was walking not to kise sight of that ” around campus instead of takThe public face rtf Subway for almost four yew Fogle 26 ing the bus A year later he bad has done and seen things he dropped 245 pounds and w as down to 1 SO on his never could have imagined frame hack when he weighed 425 well-mean- : pop-cultu- re he-sai- ke : : : ch '£’ AP photo of Natural History in the public Saturday in the museum's new mammal hall for a drink of water in this undated photo of an exhibit says raises it up to show its : importance “Attention to elegant detail - is the way you show respect for nature" said Sullivan Vjsitors entering thebxhibi- (ion first meet a wall of photos of various mammals --r ani- rhals that share leristics as specialized ear bones and secrete milk to feed the young Included arecats and dogs manatees apes and monkeys Allmammals are descended from a common ancestor The exhibition discusses how evo- - ' ' lution produced today’s great shrew-like variety from the tiny creature Morganucodon ' oelheri ' Affectionately known as Morgie to the scientists this creature lived in the shadow such-ctiara- at the Smithsonian's National Museum of dinosaurs 210 million years Hall of Mammals for the ago and is represented by a bronze model and bigger than life fuzzy toys for sale in the museum shop philanthropist whose donation made it possible the permanent exhibition covers more than half and acre of space An video’ renovated to its original Beaux Arts design and archi- traces that evolution for visi- ' tors who watch in the compalecture The California busi- Harriet a nessman donated $172 of ny ' million of the $31 3 million ' sculpture of a chimpanzee seated on one of the benches :cost of renovating the hall and Visitors can walk over clear creating the new exhibition ' casts of The museum opened in glass atop footprints of an ancient hominid in ' 1910 but inWorld War I this Africa enjoy the sights and wing was turned into govem- sounds of an African thunder-- 1 merit offices and has remained storm displayed on screens in ' subdivided since The new ' the walls and touch bear paws hall brings it back to the open' and feel blubber plan originally designed with ' y None of the animals ori ceilings and sunlight Was kijled for this' exhibilobdirig through skylights it Sullivan points out OntheNet: Formally known as jhe Museum of Natural History: Kenneth E Behring Family http:wwwmnhsiedu eight-minu- te life-si- ze - 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