A person who preserves and mounts animal skins to create lifelike displays of dead animals.
From Greek 'taxis' (arrangement/order) + 'derma' (skin). The word was invented in the 1800s to describe the emerging practice of preserving animal specimens for scientific and decorative purposes.
Taxidermists are part scientist, part artist—they have to understand animal anatomy, sculpt muscles from nothing, and match fur colors perfectly, making them incredibly skilled craftspeople that require years of training!
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