Tigers, zebras and other stuffed animals will get new homes after health concerns kept them hidden

Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, Hamran and dozens of others taxidermy It will move to new homes yet Fears About arsenic exposure Force the ending From the South Dakota Museum, where they were displayed for decades.

The Dilbridge Museum of Natural History at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls in August 2023 after the test showed dangerous levels of arsenic in 80 % of the Brockhouse group samples.

The decision raised concerns that 152 samples, some of which go back to the 1940s, will not be displayed anymore. But after the research, the City Council of the City of Fols on Tuesday unanimously consent A decision to donate to escalate for several institutions. According to the deal, 117 samples will go to the Notre Dame University Museum for Biodiversity, 33 to the Atlanta -based Oddies Museum Museum, and two to an institute for the Natural History History Company in New Jersey.

This step “guarantees not to get rid of any of the group, and all elements will be used well by natural history institutions with a good reputation.”

Dipolo, Marketing Director at the Zoo, said that arsenic does not mean that animals cannot be displayed with appropriate measures in places. Dipolo said the museum has no adequate obstacles to preventing people from touching samples, which has become the issue of responsibility.

Dipolo said the Mounts recipient will display animals that cannot be touched – most likely behind the glass – and they have experts and equipment to take care of softening aging.

Businessman Sioux Falls and Henter Henry Brockhaus built and displayed a group of animals for years in his hardware store until he died in 1978. Pursu to society donated to the city, which showed The Menagerie in the museum nearly 40 years ago. After the arsenic test was revealed, the museum was closed so that officials can sort the future of the group, which included traffic State legislation Last year for help.

Some residents were annoyed by an indispensable group to leave their city. “There is no way forward to keep him in Six Fols. It hurts me to say that. It will be sad for me to let it go.”

“With a lot of memory and inheritance as much as I think he really concluded in this group and the story of being in Six Fols, I think the right place for this is with these other institutions that go to care for this, it will give it a long -term life,” said Miranda Passi’s council member.

The city’s lawyer, Dave Fivel, said that gift agreements state that the recipients will take animals as they are, and that the size parties are their faces forever.

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She mentioned a role from Bismarck, North Dakota.