Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
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The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952. Located just west of Tucson, Arizona, it features two
A cougar at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. This image shows the natural surroundings created for the animal enclosures.
Sonoran Desert Toad, or Colorado River Toad, at the museum
A coyote (Canis latrans) standing on a rock.
A Costa's Hummingbird feeding on a flower in the Hummingbird Aviary
Arthur Newton Pack
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Arthur Newton Pack was a wealthy American naturalist and writer who founded the American Nature Association and the periodical Nature Magazine along with Percival Sheldon Risdale. Living in Tucson, Ar
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
…and animals from the region featured together in its exhibits. William H. Carr inspired and founded the Desert Museum with the support of his friend, Arthur Newton Pack, a conservationist, son of Charles Lathrop Pack, and editor of Nature Magazine. Carr had earlier founded the Bear Mountain Trailside Museum in New York…
Arthur Newton Pack