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ANIMALS DIE OF COLD
[12:31 pm] 15 January, 2008

Although Gyumri branch of the State Museum of Nature
is gasificated, it has not been heated since the day
if its foundation. Some animals live in the employees’
or the director’s houses during the winter months. The
Museum is hardly surviving owing to the employees.

The thermometer is installed right in the hall where
the unique samples of nature continue their existence.
Pigeons and guinea-pigs, living in the Museum, may be
registered in the Red Book, as frost-resistant
animals, since only they have managed to survive in
such conditions.

Fish live in more or less better conditions, since the
necessary temperature of the aquarium is maintained by
electric energy. But there were many cases when the
director had to take the fish to his home, since the
Museum did not have electric energy.

Food for the animals is bought by the employees. The
most frost-resistant animals in the Museum are
pigeons, guinea-pigs and fish. Parrots and canaries
live in the director’s house.

Gyumri branch of the State Museum of Nature was
founded 16 years ago and is located in the building of
sport-cultural center in Gyumri. The Yerevan mother
Museum pays only the salaries of the employees and
electric energy expenses. Visits to the Museum are
free.

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