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Environmental Baddies 1d
It makes me upset when people call people who enjoy taxidermy, dissections, vouching etc psychos and weirdos. Appreciating the life the animal had and what we can learn from it is very different from killing things. It’s not weird, it’s science and art
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Anonymous 14h

It is a wonderful artform to preserve nature. Natural history museums are so cool and so much of the exhibits exist because of taxidermy and careful preservation of bones, hides, etc. Dissections are also very important to learn about anatomy. Preservation of the natural world is cool to me.

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Anonymous 18h

me when i shared how excited i was about my first insect pinning and my mom responded with “wow that’s so creepy!” 🫩

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Anonymous 1d

Vouchering*

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

What’s that?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 23h

It’s how they prepare specimens for museums, like this

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 23h

Ohhh so do they kinda stuff them?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21h

Yes! Similar to taxidermy but you fill the with cotton instead of a form

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21h

Oh so it’s taxidermy with different material or are there other differences?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21h

is that the official name of “animal kabob” (how we affectionately called them at my internship 😭)

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