Animal Furniture

http://community.livejournal.com/darkvictoria/548852.html

This website shows some imagery of old fashioned furniture made from animals. Very untasteful and cruel.

Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists

http://www.roguetaxidermy.com/index.php



MART is a society of rogue taxidermists. They enjoy creating new animals from bits of others. The site has a light-hearted feel. I found an interview with 2 rogue taxidermists on the site. It can be found at http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1638. One of the taxidermists uses teh expression "when you leave even one grain of rice on your plate, god will destroy your eyes!". This might say a lot about this type of person.

Beast Blender

This site allows you to drag and drop animal parts onto each other to create a new one. I feel that its an interesting idea but too simplistic. Not enough choice in body parts and the difficulty in positioning them makes the game lack depth.

HumanDescent.com

http://www.humandescent.com/

This site has used Photoshop rather than Taxidermy to create rogue creations. It has some very interesting animals such as this cat-owl.

What can be done with taxidermy

Taxidermy can be displayed as 'art' in many ways. Here are some that I've found.

Definition

Dictionary.com Definition:

tax·i·der·my (tāk'sĭ-dûr'mē) Pronunciation Key
n. The art or operation of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.