155-Year-Old Mouse Trap in a Museum Claims Another Victim
The University of Reading's Museum of English Rural Life has caught a mouse in a trap, but not on one laid by the museum staff to catch pests and rodents that frequently enter the museum�s building and cause menace. This rodent managed to get caught in a trap that was 155 years old and stored in the museum so that it could be put on display.
When the museum�s assistant curator discovered the mouse inside the trap when searching for objects to use in an interdisciplinary research session on animals, he was puzzled because the mouse wasn�t supposed to be part of the object. He sent an email to the museum�s staff, which began:
There appears to be a dead mouse in this mousetrap which is not described as being there on the database.
Can you perhaps check whether it should be there and/or decide if having a dead mouse in the trap is the best way forward from a conservation perspective.
