An aging taxidermy menagerie in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that had been taken away from public view after testing found ...

What do you do with more than 130 arsenic-tinged taxidermied animals with significant historical and academic value, languishing in a now-closed museum that may or may not be a public health hazard?

"A lot of people think about hunting as bad. 'It's cruel ... And hunting is one of them," Schless said. While most taxidermy of big prey animals depict them as aggressive with their teeth ...

It was found that "potentially hazardous" levels of arsenic were present in 80% of the specimens at the museum's Brockhouse Collection of taxidermied animals. "Out of an abundance of caution ...

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