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Environmental Baddies 20w
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 20w

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 20w

Vouchering*

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

What’s that?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

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

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

Ohhh so do they kinda stuff them?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

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

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

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

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

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

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