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How the smallest European bird won a competition and became the king of birds, where the armored mammal is living, what was the path of paddlefish from Mississippi to Danube, who is the black-and-white beauty and where it lives, why do bats live in attics and sometimes even fly into our homes, why the looks are sometimes deceiving and sometimes not – these are only some of the numerous diverse questions for which you will find answers at the exhibition ANIMAL KINGDOM, waiting for you in the Gallery of Natural History Museum at Mali Kalemegdan since October. You will see the bird with the largest beak, shark that does not resemble a shark, a formidable-looking lizard which is vegetarian, as well as many other interesting, important or rare specimens of fishes, reptiles, birds and mammals from all continents, which altogether comprise the huge and diverse animal kingdom.

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Tree will be presented as an inspiration and artistic reflection of nature, through paintings and photographs with tree motif, as well as the means of artistic expression, through sculptures in wood. This approach will bring forward the role and importance of trees in the spiritual and humanistic sphere, as though tree is a biological organism, in the civilization sense it is also a direct or symbolic expression of esthetic, visual, mental and spiritual experiences of each artist.

This exhibition is part of the series Reflections of nature, as the topic is naturalist in its essence while the means of exhibition realization are artistic.

This exhibition is an addition to the main exhibition on trees, which will be set at the Gallery of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in second half of March 2012, under the name TREE OR THE LIFE ITSELF.

Exhibition "6 legs" was conceived as a simple and responsive guide through the world of insects. With the help of certain devices (let us keep it a little secret) we will try to take a closer look at the way of life of insects. That will, at least for a moment, reconcile "our" and "their" worlds, and cause at least a little sympathy for this group of creatures that are so important for our survival.

In many cultures, night was always connected to mysticism and something aloof. The animals they are active at night were often connected to certain beliefs in our folklore. For example, the owls calling at night were always omens of death in a person’s family, while drekavac (“screamer”) only made noise at night. All these beliefs and mysticism originated in lack of knowledge on sound and timing of calls of certain animals, and well as by impossibility to use our most important sense – sight.

It is very difficult to observe nocturnal animals by day. This is adding to the attractiveness of this exhibition, as only a small number of people know the real looks of these animals. The goal of this exhibition is to present various species of nocturnal animals (mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, insects, fishes etc.) in a small space, and to explain how these species have adapted to nocturnal light and how they “see” in the dark. The exhibition will include specimens from the collections of Natural History Museum, as well as the photographs, drawings and texts on the exhibited animals. The program will also include lectures on various topics connected with nocturnal animals.