Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal's body by mounting or stuffing, for the purpose of display or study. Animals are often, but not always, portrayed in a lifelike state. The word taxidermy describes the process of preserving the animal, but the word is also used to describe the end product, which are called taxidermy mounts or referred to simply as "taxidermy".
Primate and pachyderm taxidermy at the Rahmat International Wildlife Museum & Gallery, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia
Theodore Roosevelt's taxidermy kit, private collection
Walter Potter's Rabbit School, 1930s
Taxidermy frogs playing pool.
Trophy hunting is a form of hunting for sport in which parts of the hunted wild animals are kept and displayed as trophies. The animal being targeted, known as the "game", is typically a mature male specimen from a popular species of collectable interests, usually of large sizes, holding impressive horns, antlers, furs or manes. Most trophies consist of only select parts of the animal, which are prepared for display by a taxidermist. The parts most commonly kept vary by species, but often include head, hide, tusks, horns, or antlers.
Theodore Roosevelt standing beside a dead elephant on a trophy hunting trip in Africa.
A hunter and local guides posing with an elephant they killed, 1970
Hunter with a bear's head and hide strapped to his back on the Kodiak Archipelago
Moose head and deer antlers mounted as hunting trophies
