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F.I.S.H. is an outdoor 2009 sculpture depicting a school of fish by Donald Lipski in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The installation is underneath the I-35 overpass over the San Antonio River near Camden Street. It features 25 7-foot (2.1 m) fiberglass resin sculptures of long-eared sunfish, each of which are hand-painted and anatomically ...
The word taxidermy describes the process of preserving the animal, but the word is also used to describe the end product, which are called taxidermy mounts or referred to simply as "taxidermy". [ 1 ] The word taxidermy is derived from the Ancient Greek words τάξις taxis (order, arrangement) and δέρμα derma (skin). [ 2 ]
The conservation of taxidermy is the ongoing maintenance and preservation of zoological specimens that have been mounted or stuffed for display and study. Taxidermy specimens contain a variety of organic materials, such as fur, bone, feathers, skin, and wood, as well as inorganic materials, such as burlap, glass, and foam.
Imitation gills put into stuffed fish for the sake of appearance in taxidermy An inaccurate term for liquid breathing sets Artificial gills (human) , which extract oxygen from water to supply a human diver
As documented in Frederick H. Hitchcock's 19th-century manual entitled Practical Taxidermy, the earliest known taxidermists were the ancient Egyptians and despite the fact that they never removed skins from animals as a whole, it was the Egyptians who developed one of the world's earliest forms of animal preservation through the use of injections, spices, oils, and other embalming tools. [3]
He closed down his taxidermy business in 2012 to focus on bronze sculpting. “He started dabbling in sculpting about 20 years ago doing a little bit here and there, but it didn’t really take ...
Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. It is a particular type of aquaculture , which is the controlled cultivation and harvesting of aquatic animals such as fish, crustaceans , molluscs and so on, in natural or pseudo-natural environments.
Tales of furry fish date to the 17th-century and later the "shaggy trout" of Iceland. The earliest known American publication dates from a 1929 Montana Wildlife magazine article by J.H. Hicken. A taxidermy furry trout produced by Ross C. Jobe is a specimen at the Royal Museum of Scotland ; it is a trout with white rabbit fur "ingeniously" attached.