Assessment on different animal preservation techniques based on systematic decision tree for the development of natural history gallery in Pulau Tinggi Malaysia
Natural history collection is significant to examine the environmental impacts from human activities. The contribution of the natural history collection has been discussed and praised in recent years. Yet in the scientific literature, there are lack of public records and publication regarding the...
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2022
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8262/1/24p%20FATIN%20NUR%20ATIKAH%20ZAHARI.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8262/2/FATIN%20NUR%20ATIKAH%20ZAHARI%20COPYRIGHT%20DECLARATION.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8262/3/FATIN%20NUR%20ATIKAH%20ZAHARI%20WATERMARK.pdf |
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| Summary: | Natural history collection is significant to examine the environmental impacts from
human activities. The contribution of the natural history collection has been discussed
and praised in recent years. Yet in the scientific literature, there are lack of public
records and publication regarding the management of natural history specimens
especially in the aspect of preservation techniques. Thus, this study aims to evaluate
the perception of subject matter experts (SMEs) on various preservation techniques,
analyse the time taken and the cost of each technique, develop the systematic decision
tree (SDT) model that analysed by practitioners and come out with a development plan
of Natural History Gallery in Pulau Tinggi. Interview sessions with five SMEs were
done and questionnaire was distributed to 13 practitioners by using semi-structured
and structured questionnaire to collect qualitative and quantitative data. Five types of
preservation techniques namely taxidermy, resin, pinning, preservation in alcohol and
diaphonization were conducted and analysed using SDT. The outcomes from the
analysis showed that there are three types of SDT model which are difficulty level,
time taken and cost spent. The SDT model of difficulty level shows that pinning
technique was found to be the easiest method while taxidermy is the most difficult
technique. Practitioners agreed on taxidermy being the easy method, but they think
preservation in alcohol is easier. As for the SDT model in term of time taken,
diaphonization takes the longest time to complete the process while pinning takes the
shortest time in preservation. Practitioners concur for diaphonization but they think
preservation in alcohol takes the shortest time. While SDT for costing aspect shows
that pinning requires the lowest expense while diaphonization needs the highest cost
and practitioners do agree with the statement. All data acquired from this study is
important and will be used as a guide for the development and improvement of natural
history gallery in Malaysia. |
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