2006-10-26 00:30:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
In the 19th century, P. T. Barnum displayed in his museum a taxidermal hoax called the Feejee Mermaid. Others have perpetrated similar hoaxes, which are usually papier-mâché fabrications or parts of deceased creatures, usually monkeys and fish, stitched together for the appearance of a grotesque mermaid. In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, pictures of Fiji mermaids were passed around on the internet as something that had washed up amid the devastation, though they were no more real than Barnum's exhibit.♥
2006-10-26 03:05:50 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are made by the museum just like a decoration in an amusement park actually they are just made of stones and marble painted to look like a real mermaid they used as a display to make the museum fun to visit okay
2006-10-26 00:49:30 · answer #2 · answered by niceguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They sit next to Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy.
2006-10-26 00:41:09 · answer #3 · answered by Longjohn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are not present for the exact reason you mentioned
they are all dead and filling up the museums
none left
so they are not present
2006-10-26 00:39:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
is today the first of April?
2006-10-26 12:04:49 · answer #5 · answered by abdul nasser 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. Where? I dont beleive that,
2006-10-26 00:38:06 · answer #6 · answered by elaeblue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're hoaxes and have been proven to be so.
2006-10-26 00:32:09 · answer #7 · answered by freyas_kin28 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are fake
2006-10-26 00:39:51 · answer #8 · answered by Adsense$Profits? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THEY ALL DIED
2006-10-29 09:03:08 · answer #9 · answered by jmmysmallwood 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋