Our Collections

• Our collections only comprise photographs of the lives we have actually encountered by chance. None of them was taken automatically.
• We don't use any bait, scent, artificial roost, tape-recorder or other unfair method to lure birds or animals. We often talk to them with our own whistle or voice, but never try to provoke mobbing.
• Except for 'chained mammals' section, our collections do not comprise any animal in captivity. They may include, however, domesticated mammals freely walking, wandering or reposing at the time of our "meeting".
• Similarly, you will only find plants and fungi growing wild. Rare exceptions include farm products like finger millet or rape flowers.

Our Pictures

• We reserve any and all the rights about the pictures displayed in this site. Unauthorized reproduction, copying, reusing etc. is strictly prohibited. Those who want to use any of them are requested to contact us, specifying the image and the purpose of its use.
• While we usually ask charges for commercial uses, we will not require any money if the requested photo is intended to use for personal, scientific or educational purposes or in an effort to conserve nature or wildlife. In any case, we may grant non-exclusive right to use our photo for the specified purpose only, and subject to additional requests (like copyright indication, typically).
• Films are not available for lending. We can only provide images in electronic formats, including .psd, .jpg, .tif and others. Most of images are available in larger size. Please ask for availability and details.
• To date, we have provided our images to NPOs for the conservation of nature, a (not virtual :-)) museum, book publishers, scientific writers, TV programs, out-of-door school, personal and commercial web sites, an amateur theater troupe, students, researchers, etc.

Links & Bookmarks

• We are in no position to restrict inbound links to our pages. Be aware, however, that most of our pages are designed as frame component and subject to URL change at any time. We will try to keep URLs of homepage, entrance pages and blog homepage unchanged as far as possible.
• As of July 2007, the site has 2 urls : http://www.pmnh.org/ and http://www.planktonik.com/museum/. For link purposes, please use the former domain, namely "www.pmnh.org".

Taxonomy and Common Names

• The museum does not contain any original taxonomic opinion. In fact, everything is based on published books and field guides or web sites, which include among others:
  • Sibley C.G. and Monroe Jr. B.L., (1993) "A World Checklist Of Birds", Yale University Press - for the Birds sector.
  • Shirai S., (1993) "Lexicon of the Mammal Names of the World", Hara Shobo - for the Mammals sector.
  • Jinbo, U. "List-MJ", or List of Moths of Japan, and N.P. Kristensen et al. "Handbook of Zoology Part 35 Vol.1" for lepidopteran.
• Scientific and English names are also based on the above books.
• A more complete list of references is found on our acknowledgment page (which is partly under construction).

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