Requirement
4. One of seven projects: from a book report to two study skins
Required Often forgotten
Seven routes with nothing in common except that each is one piece of work. Two of them need an institution to agree to help; one needs only a library card.
Notes and warnings
Note. Two of these seven need somebody else to agree first. 4(a) has to be done under the guidance of a nature center or natural history museum, and 4(e) needs a natural history museum you can get to. Both are worth a phone call before you commit to the route rather than after.
What this is made of
- 4(a). Two study skins of rats or mice
- 4(b). Good pictures of two kinds of mammal in the wild
- 4(c). A life history of a native game mammal, to 3(c)'s outline
- 4(d). Make and bait a tracking pit
- 4(e). Visit a natural history museum
- 4(f). A 500-word report on a book about a mammal species
- 4(g). Trace two food chains of carnivorous mammals
Where this step comes from
- Mammal Study Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-12-31), Requirement 4 · States "Do ONE of the following".