Animals displayed at the Trailside Museums were generally captured by the resident naturalists or donated by visitors at the beginning of each museum season. Most were released back to the wild with the closing of the museums in the fall. Inhabitants that had been tamed as babies, or would otherwise be unable to survive the winter, were either kept at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History or placed in the care of kindred educational organizations. The baby owls pictured above were donated to the Trailside Museum after their parents destroyed a nearby dovecote in search of food; the owl nest was hunted down, and the youngsters placed in the custody of Harold Wallin at the Rocky River Trailside Museum. | Source: Courtesy of Cleveland MetroparksDownload Original File
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"Baby Owls at the Rocky River Trailside Museum, 1939" appears in: Trailside Museums
