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| What is Taxidermy? Taxidermy (from the Greek for classifying skins) is the act of mounting or reproducing dead animals for display (e.g. as hunting trophies) or for other sources of study. Taxidermy can be done on all species of animals including mammals, birds, nematodes, reptiles and amphibians. The methods that taxidermists practice have been improved over the last century, heightening taxidermic quality, and lowering toxicity. The animal is first skinned. This process is similar to removing the skin from a chicken prior to cooking. This can be accomplished without opening the body cavity so the taxidermist usually does not see internal organs or blood. The skin is tanned and then placed on a polyurethane form. Clay is used to install glass eyes. Forms and eyes are commercially available from a number of suppliers. If not, taxidermist carve or cast their own forms. Taxidermists may practice professionally, for museums or as a business catering to hunters and fishermen, or as amateurs, such as hobbyists, hunters, and fishermen. To practice taxidermy, one must be very familiar with anatomy, sculpture, and painting, as well as tanning. Rogue taxidermy is the creation of stuffed animals which do not have real, live counterparts. They may represent unrealistic hybrids such as the jackalope and the skvader, extinct species, mythical creatures such as dragons, chimeras, griffins, unicorns or mermaids, or may be entirely of the maker's imagination. Some are made from parts of more than one kind of animal, or they may be artificially created. Rogue taxidermy is often seen in sideshows and dime museums among genuine freak animals. When the Platypus was first discovered by Europeans in 1798, and a pelt and sketch were sent to the United Kingdom, some thought the animal to be a hoax. It was thought that a taxidermist had sewn a duck's beak onto the body of a beaver-like animal. George Shaw, who produced the first description of the animal in the Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799, even took a pair of scissors to the dried skin to check for stitches. The term "Rogue Taxidermy" was introduced by the Minneapolis, MN based group, The Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists (or M.A.R.T.)[1] in October of 2004. It was first coined by M.A.R.T. founders Sarina Brewer, Scott Bibus, and Robert Marbury. The term first appeared in print in a New York Times article about the group's debut exhibition on January 3rd, 2005. [2] Since that time its definition has become more general, referring to many types of taxidermy that do not fall under the trade of it. Art taxidermists such as David Blyth and Polly Morgan use taxidermy to create art either as its sole content or as part of an installation. Anthropomorphic taxidermy is where stuffed animals are dressed as people or displayed as if engaged in human activities. This style was popular in Victorian and Edwardian times but can still be found today. The style was popularised by Herman Ploucquet, taxidermist in Stuttgart, Germany, when he exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851. The most well-known practitioner in this genre is English taxidermist Walter Potter, whose most famous work is The Death and Burial of Cock Robin. Another important practitioner was Edward Hart, whose The Prize Fight series depicts a boxing match between two red squirrels. A modern anthropomorphic taxidermist is M. Cattelan who in his installation Bidibidobidiboo showed a squirrel that had committed suicide, dead at its kitchen table. _________________________ Learn before you judge. Have any leather in your house? In a sense thats taxidermy, leather is skin. Pelts = couches, purses, shoes... anything made of leather. So, against taxidermy and pelts/fur? Look around your house. Chances are - you have some secretly with you right now. ____________________________ Leather is a material created through the tanning of hides and skins of animals, primarily cattlehide. The tanning process converts the putrescible skin into a durable, long-lasting and versatile natural material for various uses. Together with wood, leather formed the basis of much ancient technology. The leather industry and the fur industry are distinct industries that are differentiated by the importance of their raw materials. In the leather industry the raw materials are by-products of the meat industry, with the meat having higher value than the skin. The fur industry uses raw materials that are higher in value than the meat and hence the meat is classified as a by-product. Taxidermy also makes use of the skin of animals, but generally the head and part of the back are used. Hides and skins are also used in the manufacture of glue and gelatin. Art made for me <3       |
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| Likes: Wolves, drawing, taxidermy, pelts, animals, outdoors, snow, music, rain, hail, ice, pets. Dislikes: Fur coats, ( I'm fine with fur hats, mitts/gloves, boots... anything but fur coats for some reason. I just hate them, i've never brought myself to like them. No harm meant to anyone that makes them.) PETA PEOPLE, haters, crime and manslaughter, rollercoasters, aireal hunting, animal abuse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I like to collect taxidermy/pelts. If you don't like that, please don't comment me about it. I respect animals, and I absolutely love them as well, liking taxidermy and pelts doesn't mean you hate the animals alive. It isn't a crime. If you ever say that I don't love aniamls you are terribly mistaken. It REALLY pisses me off when people say taxidermists hate animals, or hunters hate animals. Maybe some do, I've heard of some that kill animals because they hate them, but don't label all hunters because a few do. Don't you ever say I hate animals, or you'll get a earfull if you know what I mean. I've always loved animals, even when I was a kid, so don't you ever judge me because of my pelts and love for taxidermy. All my taxidermy peices/pelts are cared for, not just tossed around or thrown on the ground or in a closet. Dead or alive, they are still animals, and you should still respect them. Still - my gallery is pretty much a random bunch of pictures, drawings, and taxidermy. I have some photographs I took, pets, and my pelts and my mount. So, if you don't like my pelts you can always look at other things. ~~ P.S: I do not kill my animals, I don't like to hunt myself. I get my pelts and taxidermy from sites like Ebay and Glacierwear. That being said, you probably figured I don't skin these animals, either. |
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- Current Residence: Texas
- Interests: Wolves, drawing, taxidermy, pelts, animals, outdoors, snow, music, rain, hail, ice, pets,photography
- Favourite movie: Oh god, I have to many favorites.
- Favourite band or musician: Linkin Park, Thomas Newman, Breaking Benjamin, Bon Jovi, Three Days Grace, Daughtry, and many more..
- Favourite genre of music: Rock
- Favourite poet or writer: David Clement-Davies
- MP3 player of choice: Ipod Touch
- Wallpaper of choice: Wolves
- Favourite game: World Of Warcraft, Okami, Zelda
- Favourite gaming platform: Uh... does the computer count?
- Personal Quote: If you believe in yourself, anything is possible.
- Tools of the Trade: pencil, hands, pen, Photoshop Elements 5.0, camera
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“I'm nothing but a lone wolf, misunderstood and labeled to be dangerous.”
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Boot to the head!
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“I'm nothing but a lone wolf, misunderstood and labeled to be dangerous.”
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Boot to the head!
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“I'm nothing but a lone wolf, misunderstood and labeled to be dangerous.”
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“I'm nothing but a lone wolf, misunderstood and labeled to be dangerous.”
i can't believe that your'e really buying those animals dead, those where killed by hunters, only for your'e hobby or collection?
that's so cruel for those poor little things, I hate hunters who kill for money....i just can't believe this....
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“I'm nothing but a lone wolf, misunderstood and labeled to be dangerous.”
I know very much about hunters and men who kill those animals really cruel, only for there pellt, people most leave those animals alone, if you saw a human dead, you don't take his skin would you? nooo buth you will take a wolf skin, it's how nature goes, he dies and he will be eaten by some other animal, and people who live in the woods, there not many of them.
And there are many hunters who kill them only for there pellts, there are many wolves extinct because of them. I know very much about this.
I can't speak english very well, because i'm netherlands, and if i can speak netherlands to you, then i had more to say.
In the face of mother nature,there is a cycle, that prey eats, and predator eats prey. and when the cycle or balance in nature is broken, well in order to keep balance some wolves or animals in general will die. whether it be due to starvation, the hand of man, or other animals.
but. sincerely take a look a good one into the native american , culture.
they do take the skin of the animals they kill and utilize all parts of the animal, they even honor the animal. that is their culture. they hunt and kill and eat the meat and use all parts of the animal killed.
sadly, there are folk who will kill a bull elephant for the tucks and leave the animal(POACHERS) to decay.
now for humans and skinning realistically speaking .... in present day IF YOU ... see a dead human...ah..you better call authorities. or something...you dont just see humans lying on the roadside or in the wilderness often.
(a thought...random..But yes when i die i don't want a coffin, or a funeral really i want to be put in a pine box, organs donated...whatever i can give back. back to the earth that is it.)
but yes..i ask you have you ever seen the movie into the wild or ....read the book about chris macandless. maybe you should read it or rent the movie....
i will say this i love nature, and nature can be cruel it is a hard thing to see a dead animal ..but yes there are hunters, who kill senselessly and savagely....
i consider them brutal.
But i own pelts. i have gotten them from a hunter who kills to feed his family.
and yes i can understand, but i aslo understand nature and balance. i support wolflova 202 and what she has said. thank you . that is all i have to say.
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"I am Just an Earth Bound Mystic.. who " Fell in Love with the Sky."
I'm sorry that I said those things to you, I overreacted...
because I'm so bussy for the animals because I love them so much, but now I've heard from you that you feel the same to, for them.
So I will leave you alone and I will let you do youre thing, because I know now, that you are a good person.
And I understand.
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All posts a product of dyslexia and ADHD. Please ignore the typo's and jumping around topics.
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craft blog: [link]
Sponsored by HDGreatings E-cards : [link]
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They say "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." Well I think the guns help. If you stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.
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“I'm nothing but a lone wolf, misunderstood and labeled to be dangerous.”
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