Zions Bank hosts exhibit of Traveling Treasures

by Sally Jack
Contributing writer
Yes, it really is a small skunk in a jar, and it’s on display at Zions Bank Monticello as part of a traveling exhibit sponsored by Zions Bank Inc. and brought to you by the Natural History Museum of Utah.
The Traveling Treasures Exhibit titled “Defense Experts” explores surprising and effective defense mechanisms many plants and creatures are equipped with to protect themselves from predators, the elements, and other dangers they encounter.
Six exhibit cases in the lobby at the bank display an interesting variety of defense mechanisms such as the vertebra of a meat-eating Allosaurus.
The vertebra is missing a piece of bone from the blade protruding from its side and may be a rare fossil showing evidence that a long, sharp tail-spike of a plant-eating Stegosaurus may have succeeded in wounding this Allosaurus.
At the Defense Experts Exhibit you will learn how moths, turtles, skunks, lizards, shelled sea creatures, poison ivy, cacti and even people, protect themselves.
Visitors who view the exhibit at the bank may pick up a brochure that includes a ticket for free admission to the Natural History Museum of Utah at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Traveling Treasures Exhibit will be displayed at Zions Bank Monticello through the month of June.