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British-era museum in Coimbatore exhibits rare collections

Coimbatore, July 01 (ANI): A British-era museum in Tamil Nadu, exhibiting rare collection of nearly 4,000 species of animals and plants, draws thousands of spectators and students. The Gass Forest Museum in Coimbatore city exhibits one of the rarest and most extensive collections of rare and endangered animals that had been hunted down, birds, tribal clothes, animal skins, animal skeletons and historical weapons. Along with it, also on display are foetus of elephant, cobra eggs, ostrich eggs, python and cobra skins, and timbers, teak, sandalwood trees. The museum also showcases an actually hunted Gaur (Indian bison), skulls of many Gaur and deer varieties, bird varieties, snake skins and tree trunks as old as 450-years-old. The Gass Forest Museum, which was set up in 1902 by British official Horace Archibald Gass, was closed for the past eight months for renovation work. It was opened last month for public.

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