Imagine taking your child to a natural history museum to learn about wildlife and the natural world but instead being greeted by hunting trophies. Many school groups visit the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and for most of these children this will be their first time viewing these animals up close. Rooms full of severed taxidermied heads provide little educational context and instead promote cruelty and a blatant disrespect for wildlife. According to a museum staff member, many of these animals' heads and torsos came from hunters' personal collections and zoos. Several of the primates are endangered species. Please let the museum know that taxidermy and hunting displays are not educational and do not promote "responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds" as per the museum's own mission statement. To inspire a better connection with nature, the museum should continue the study of animals in their natural habitat, as is the case of the museum's recent foray into highlighting local urban wildlife. Another alternative to the exhibit space could be sculpted models made by artisans, best exemplified by the recent "Monsterfish" exhibit at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, DC.