Fascinating: Leh looking at the cabinet display filled with different species of hornbills, which had travelled to London in 1890. On the left is a locally-made display cabinet.
KUCHING: Did you know that some of the exhibits at the Sarawak Museum here travelled thousands of kilometres to London in 1890, and returned safely some two years later via steamship?
The orangutans, leaf, proboscis and macaque monkeys as well as gibbons, flying foxes, civets, otters, squirrels, hornbills and jungle birds were the first globe-trotting animal specimens from the state.
