The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets.

the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance

The process of preparing animal skins and stuffing them in a lifelike form.

Taxidermy is a 2000 album by UK "goth'n'roll" band Queen Adreena. The enhanced-CD release includes a short film by Martina Hoogland-Ivanow involving time-lapse photography and escalators.

A scientific process which takes the remains of one dead creature and converts it into the shape of another species, or in extremis an abstract form, for display in a Belgian museum. For spectacular illustrations of the end result of this process visit the African Museum in Tervuren and look out for classic examples such as the "monkey-owl" and the "lamp-post spoonbill".