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Bison diorama in 2015 after extensive treatments, American Museum of Natural History. 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 ...
Taxidermy. Primate and pachyderm taxidermy at the Rahmat International Wildlife Museum & Gallery, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia. Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal 's body by mounting (over an armature) or stuffing, for the purpose of display or study. Animals are often, but not always, portrayed in a lifelike state.
History of taxidermy. Taxidermy, or the process of preserving animal skin together with its feathers, fur, or scales, is an art whose existence has been short compared to forms such as painting, sculpture, and music. The word derives from two Greek words: taxis, meaning order, preparation, and arrangement and derma, meaning skin.
Fish reproduction. A pair of bettas spawning under a bubble nest. Fish reproductive organs include testes and ovaries. In most species, gonads are paired organs of similar size, which can be partially or totally fused. [ 1 ] There may also be a range of secondary organs that increase reproductive fitness.
There have been attempts to categorise taxidermy in both artistic and scientific terms for over a century. An 1896 review of Montagu Browne’s Artistic and Scientific Taxidermy and Modelling notes that “Any work which will aid in more clearly defining the difference between the art of taxidermy and the trade of taxidermy is to be welcomed.” [1] Stephen T. Asma suggests that natural ...
F.I.S.H. / 29.43972°N 98.48167°W / 29.43972; -98.48167. F.I.S.H. is an outdoor 2009 sculpture depicting a school of fish by Donald Lipski, installed underneath the 1-35 overpass near Camden Street in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The installation features 25 7-foot (2.1 m) fiberglass resin sculptures of long-eared sunfish, each ...
Artificial gills. Artificial gills may refer to: 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.
Jenny Haniver. A Jenny Haniver is the carcass of a ray or a skate that has been modified by hand then dried, resulting in a mummified specimen intended to resemble a fanciful fictional creature, such as a demon or dragon. [1][2][3] This practice dates back to the 16th century when these specimens were often sold as curiosities to sailors and ...