Taxidermy is a fundamental technique for preserving vertebrate animal remains. Essentially it's a method of preserving elements of an animal for study or display after the animal has died. Many people first see examples of taxidermy whilst visiting natural history museums and marvelling at the lifelike results of top Victorian and Edwardian taxidermists like Rowland Ward or Edward Gerrard & Sons, but the technique encompasses far more than the diorama we see in traditional displays in…
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