Environmental Baddies on Yik Yak | 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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Environmental Baddies 15w

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 15w

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 15w

Vouchering*

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OP 15w

What’s that?

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Anonymous

#1 15w

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

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OP 15w

Ohhh so do they kinda stuff them?

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Anonymous

#1 15w

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

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OP 15w

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

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OP 15w

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

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