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“Thanks to the Ig Nobel Prize that my First-Case-of-Homosexual-Necrophilia-Paper won, the story of that poor bird became widely known and people wanted to see and admire the duck,” he tells Mindy Weisberger at Live Science. In 2003, he wrote a description of the incident for a journal, which earned him an Ig Nobel Prize. Though the male duck was dead, Moeliker then observed another male duck approach its corpse and copulate with it for 75 minutes. Moeliker was inspired to create the exhibit in 1995 when a duck hit the glass façade of the museum. Many of the other deaths featured at the museum are not so poetic. It’s poetic, in my opinion, what happened there.”

This poor creature literally collided with the largest machine in the world, where physicists collide particles every day. “We try to put a magnifying glass on some fine examples. “We want to show that no matter what we do to the environment, to the natural world, the impact of nature will always be there,” he says. There’s no word on whether the martens come from the future, but Moeliker tells Sample they perfectly illustrate the underlying meaning of his exhibit. That led two physicists to suggest that the bird was sent from the future to keep the LHC from exploring secrets nature does not want humans to know.

In November 2009, the LHC was also put out of a commission when bird dropped a piece of baguette into the system that keeps the collider from overheating.

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That incident took the collider offline for a week. Workers found its charred remains, but disposed of the body before Moeliker could request it. In fact, Moeliker’s 2.3-foot marten is dubbed “Cern Weasel 2.” That’s because back in April 2016 another marten, aka CERN Weasel, made it into the supercollider and chewed its way through a 66,000 volt transformer. “It shows that animal and human life collide more and more, with dramatic results for both.” “It’s a fine example of what the exhibition is all about,” Moeliker tells Sample. Moeliker requested that officials keep the tiny furry carcass so he could stuff it and include it in the exhibition. The incident briefly knocked out power to the collider. Kees Moeliker, director of the Rotterdam Natural History Museum, has an affinity for animals that get themselves into deadly predicaments and tells the stories of some of the unfortunate creatures in the museum's permanent exhibition “ Dead Animal Tales.” Now, the exhibit has acquired a prized specimen-a stone marten that hopped the fence at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva and fried itself to death.Īccording to Ian Sample at The Guardian, the stone marten-a small mammal similar to a weasel-made its way into a substation for the collider in November and was instantly electrocuted by an 18,000-volt transformer.

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