Terrible Taxidermy from When Exotic Animals Were Unknown in the West - Hyperallergic

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Terrible Taxidermy from When Exotic Animals Were Unknown in the West Hyperallergic Exotic animal visitors to Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries were more frequently dead than alive. Taxidermists relied on second hand, or even third hand, accounts of the living anatomy of creatures reduced to dried skins, resulting in some wildly ...