23 December 2017 — 11 March 2018
Location :
Exhibition halls / Ground floor
The exhibition project
“Wildlife: staying clean without soap” displays widespread and unusually creative ways
of staying clean among wild animals and archaic humans.
Keeping clean is a very important part of a wild animal’s life. A great number of animals make many efforts and
spend much time on licking their fur, cleaning feathers or just taking dirt
baths. Cats, for example, spend 1/3 of their lives licking themselves. Like
many mammals, they keep clean using a special brush, their own tongue. The
surface of the tongue is perfect for grooming, especially because of antibacterial
substances in a cat’s saliva.
Animals and birds have
different approaches to this problem. Chinchillas and squirrels take dust
baths. Wild boars, elephants and hippos prefer to bathe in the mud, which, sticking
to their skin, covers it with a crust and protects from insect bites. A part of
the exhibition helps to learn more about the role of hygiene in human history.
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