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A low-budget jackalope mockumentary, Stagbunny, aired in Casper and Douglas in 2006. The movie included interviews with the owner of a Douglas sporting goods store who claimed to harbor a live jackalope on his premises and with a paleontologist who explained the natural history of the jackalope and its place in the fossil record. [1]
The rasselbock (German: [ˈʁasl̩ˌbɔk]), or rarely raspelbock, (in America called a Jackalope) is a mythological animal often depicted in such locations as hunting lodges. It has the head and body of a rabbit and the antlers of a roe deer. The female counterpart of the rasselbock is the Rasselgeiß, which have smaller antlers.
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]
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Jackalope – A jackrabbit with the horns of a whitetail deer. Satyr – Originally an ancient Greek nature spirit with the body of a man, but the long tail and pointed ears of a horse. [11] [12] From the beginning, satyrs were inextricably associated with drunkenness and ribaldry, known for their love of wine, music, and women.
Taxidermy altered to resemble a "jackalope" Jackalope – Rabbit with antlers; Jack Frost - Personified of ice, winter and snow; Jack-In-Irons – Malevolent giant; Jack-o'-lantern (Medieval folklore) – Vegetal lantern; Jaculus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Winged serpent or small dragon; Jasconius (Medieval folklore) – Island-sized fish
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 ]
Frederick Greenwood working at Gerrards in the 1940s. Edward Gerrard & Sons was a taxidermy firm founded and run by the Gerrard family from 1853 in Camden, London. [1] The company also made anatomical models and dealt in sale of artefacts.