Badgers (Meles meles) love to dig and live with their family members in widley ramified burrows with up to 20 entrances. The badger diorama was completed in 1955. The female that is shown here was added in 1979.
Peter Sierigk

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Our opening hours

The Natural History Museum at Pockelsstraße has the following hours:

Tue–Sun 9am–5pm
Wed 9am–7pm
Mon closed

Main building

Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum
Pockelsstr. 10
38106 Braunschweig

Telephone 0531 1225 - 3000

Adult 9.00 € | reduced 7.00 € | child (6–17 years) 4.00 €

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These two roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) are presented in a landscape South of the Elm hills. Indicated in the background are the Asse and Harz mountains.

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Blackbird (Turdus merula) with an earthworm in the meadow chowcase of the Discovery Hall

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This poison dart frog or poison arrow frog originally inhabits the rain forests of South America. The conspicuous coloration is a warning signal for potential predators that the animal is poisonous. Some conspicuous species use this effect to deceive predators even though they are not poisonous. However, the poison dart frogs live up to their name and are one of the most poisonous animals in the wild. They receive and accumulate their toxins from their food. Therefore, captive species are often not poisonous because the necessary food sources to gather these toxins are unavailable.

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