Kunali was delivered from the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage to Fairbanks, where its skin, tissue and bones will aid scientists in the future.
What researchers hope to learn from a Siberian tiger taking its final rest at Alaska’s Museum of the NorthTiger siblings Korol and Kunali relax in the snow at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage. After each tiger died, zoo officials donated them to the UA Museum of the North in Fairbanks, where they are available for scientific research and outreach.
They dried the skin with salt to prepare it for professional tanning. Beetle larvae are now at work defleshing the bones. Like Gunderson, they are laboring to provide answers to future questions. “Having the whole large cat skeleton gives us a reference for species IDs and fragmentary parts,” Gunderson said. “We preserve the skin and skeleton as parts we can loan for science and education purposes.”
Kunali was not the first Siberian tiger Gunderson had encountered in his job. He worked on Kunali’s brother Korol, another gift from the Alaska Zoo, last year. Though Gunderson mostly processes smaller mammals, such as dozens of marmots each year, he has also prepared and preserved camels, flying foxes, sloths and other animals not found today in Alaska.
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