Thursday, 3 December 2009

Leeds Museum Visit 2: Taxidermy

Leeds Museum has a good selection of taxidermy in their Life on Earth section.








Below is a carved elephant tusk on loan from HM Revenue and Customs. People make decorations from tusks and rind rhino horns for medicine. Although this isn't in theme with the rest of the stuffed animals I've been posting, I still find the bone structure and anatomy on an animal very interesting. I think it's inhumane and cruel to kill elephants and other animals for their tusks or any other part of the body that will be simply used for decoration.

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