The dissection begins! I’m joined by Pasha van Bijlert, a PhD student at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. You can follow along on Instagram or Facebook. Nothing in the world could convince me to use Tumblr Live. ;)
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Some gems from Hemswell today!
1 and 2 - very cool vintage children's rides, the sort of thing I'd buy in a heartbeat if I was rich. My mum said they're older than her (she was born in 1969)
3 and 4 - strange animal foot stools (?)
5 - a definitely cursed glass clown
6 - obligatory uncomfortable dolls
7 - a corner of taxidermy featuring an actual lion. There were also some taxidermy moles made to look like axe murderers in one of the cabinets (not pictured)
8 - HER
9 - a gorgeous lithograph I would kill for. Unfortunately it was £75 and neither me nor my mum could afford it 😔
10 - potentially one of the best, and weirdest things I've ever seen: a rocking horse tricycle. Definitely adult sized too. Another thing I'd buy in a heartbeat if I was a millionaire
All at Hemswell antique centres, UK
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what happens to confiscated animal parts?
There’s a warehouse that the US Fish and Wildlife runs in Colorado to hold illegally trafficked wildlife parts. Some of it ends up there, as teaching tool and as storage. The link to a story about it is here, but I’m not going to embed the photos because it’s a ton of taxidermy and dead animals I think folk might find distressing. I’ve been there on a tour and it’s... a lot. Even as someone who generally doesn’t find taxidermy upsetting, the sheer number of dead exotic animals and their parts is overwhelming. Rows and rows of taxidermied big cats; whole shelving units crammed full of elephant tusks.
Some confiscated items get lent out to educational facilities like zoos and museums that deal with species conservation or wildlife laws, I think others, like ivory, are often destroyed. As the article I linked notes, there’s certainly not enough space in that one Colorado warehouse for all of the confiscated wildlife items.
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My canis latrans Cassidy (left) and Mallaidh (right) are beautiful examples of how animals in the order carnivora actually have two mandibles that are held together.
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someone keeps venting about dead animals in general chat
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The story of the real last thylacine is insane what the fuck
(;TMAG stands for Tasmanian museum and art gallery)
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Just pulled this wee chap out of the freezer. It’s going to be a very interesting week!
I’ll be posting about the dissection of this crocodile over on Instagram or Facebook, probably including videos, and possibly even live streaming part of the work, so go catch that content there if you’re interested! Dissection work starts on Wednesday.
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A fun and delightful comic commission from whimsy__willow over on ao3 of a scene from their fic
I honestly love getting little fic scene commissions like this, they’re one of my favorite challenges as far as bringing a story to life :3
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This is an ocean sunfish skeleton, you're welcome
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