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Exhibits| Official Website: The Language of Color at HMNH Occurs at: Harvard Museum of Natural History Location: 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 map Phone:617-495-3045 Date: Friday, September 26, 2008 - Sunday, March 28, 2010 In/Outdoor: Indoor Cost: $ |
Whether it’s the brilliant blue wings of a butterfly, the scarlet feathers of a tanager, or the stripes of a zebra, animals display color in vastly different ways and for different reasons.
Combining dramatic specimens with video presentations, computer interactives, hands-on activities, and a stunning display of live dart frogs, The Language of Color will help visitors understand the nature of color and pattern, how different animals “see” it, and how animal color and its perception have co-evolved to produce the complex and diverse palette of colors we see in the world today.
The exhibit features a wide array of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and insect specimens that illustrate colors used to camouflage, startle predators, mimic other animals, attract a mate, or intimidate a rival.
On exhibit through September 6, 2009.
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Interesting and kid-friendly, Tue 16 Feb 2010
This is a gorgeous exhiibit. The two nine-year-olds I took got a lot out of it even though they didn't have the patience to read everything.
Live Poison Dart Frogs, Thu 9 Oct 2008
Language of Color includes a terrarium of LIVE poison dart frogs. Luckily you learn that the frogs get their poison from eating toxic insects, and their diet in the museum doesn't include the poisonous insects!
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