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International Wildlife Museum, also known as the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a non profit natural history museum, established in 1988 by C. J. McElroy, who established the Safari Club International. The club is located in Tucson, Arizona.

Collection
The museum is covered in 40,000 square foot area and features more than 400 species of birds, insects and mammals. Some of the collection of the museum is more than 100 years old and were donated by government agencies, rehabilitation centers and captive breeding programs. The museum also features the “Big Terror”, a stuffed tiger killed in India in 1969, a rhinoceros taken by President Theodore Roosevelt, the Irish elk with 13 foot antlers, penguins from Richard Byrd’s South Pole discovery trip, a passenger pigeon and a wooly mammoth.