Akeley also encouraged placing the animals in as natural and realistic a setting as possible, which often involved animals being in action. Using taxidermy to educate people about the natural ...

(Greg Cook) An example of more regular, fine art taxidermy is Mark Dion’s “Concrete Jungle (Mammalia).” The highly realistic 1992 diorama/stage set of a raccoon, rat, cat, opossum and other ...

That’s where taxidermy is moving, toward more realistic scenes of wild animals ... who bagged the North American Grand Slam of wild sheep: four types from across the continent.