Taxidermy
Taxidermy (which comes from the Greek word for "the arrangement of skin") is act of taking the skin of an animals and preserving it, by putting it on a fake body. If you perform taxidermy, you taxiderm. Taxidermed animals can be mounted and put on display, sometimes in a museum or a home. People who taxidermy animals are called taxidermists. Many hunters and fishermen taxidermine the animals they catch and kill for trophies. Ones that are on display in museums are used to make dioramas and for educational purposes. Some people taxiderm their pets and other street animals.
Taxidermy Media
Primate and pachyderm taxidermy at the Rahmat International Wildlife Museum & Gallery, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia
Theodore Roosevelt's taxidermy kit, private collection
Taxidermied moose and deer heads at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas
Taxidermy frogs playing pool.
Mother moose and calf diorama, Manitoba Museum
An example of rogue taxidermy in the form of a griffin, exhibited in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen
Two examples of traditional skin-mounts, a Lion and Blue Wildebeest from Namibia
Example of dermestid beetle damage to a freeze-dried taxidermy mount of a rattlesnake
Reproduction mount of a rhinoceros made of fiberglass
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