John James Audubon
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John James Audubon was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictori
Portrait by John Syme, 1826
La Gerbetière, mansion owned by Audubon's father in Couëron, where young Audubon was raised
Plate 41 of The Birds of America by Audubon, depicting ruffed grouse
John James Audubon, Long Haired Squirrel, c. 1841.
Body snatching
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Body snatching is the illicit removal of corpses from graves, morgues, and other burial sites. Body snatching is distinct from the act of grave robbery as grave robbing does not explicitly involve the
John James Audubon
…Harris's hawk, Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi) was based on a stolen specimen. Audubon has also been widely criticized for buying and selling slaves, bodysnatching, and trafficking Native American remains. As of 2025, more than two dozen regional Audubon societies across the United States have changed their names…
Body snatchers at work. A painting on the wall of a public house in Penicuik, Scotland
Mortsafe in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
A cadaver in a dissecting room.
In rural parts of northern India, the lowest classes sometimes cannot obtain wood for cremation or ground for burial, and the exposure of bodies is the result.