{"id":855,"date":"2017-09-28T20:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theexotic.ch\/?p=855"},"modified":"2017-10-17T10:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T08:27:01","slug":"unpacking-the-gymnotus-visit-at-the-museum-of-natural-history-geneva-september-12-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking the Gymnotus. Visit at the Museum of Natural History, Geneva, Sept. 12, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Gymnotus is a specimen collected around 1750 in Surinam, a former Dutch Colony. It was the possession of\u00a0Ami Butini, a plantation and slave owner who\u00a0 originally stemmed\u00a0from Geneva. This electric fish was preserved in a jar\u00a0of rum\u00a0(most likely the production of a local plantation, perhaps even Butini&#8217;s own production) and sent \u00a0to the Biblioth\u00e8que de Gen\u00e8ve \u2019s cabinet\u00a0by its owner.<br \/>\nThe curator Sonia Fisch-Muller from the Museum opened it for us in order to measure its size. This specimen is on our wish list for the exhibition to be held in Lausanne in 2020. More to come!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-859\" src=\"http:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2321-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2321-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2321-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2321-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-860\" src=\"http:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2334-e1506322952386-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2334-e1506322952386-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2334-e1506322952386-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-861\" src=\"http:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2349-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2349-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2349-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2349-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Gymnotus is a specimen collected around 1750 in Surinam, a former Dutch Colony. It was the possession of\u00a0Ami Butini, a plantation and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theexotic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}