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Crap Taxidermy
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Kat Su
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2014
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A humorous look at what happens when taxidermy goes terribly wrong, by the founder of the hit website crappytaxidermy.com.

A relaxed toad enjoying a smoke and a brew. A cat with eerily flexible front legs. A smiling lion with receding gums. Whether you choose to laugh or cringe at these spectacularly bad attempts at taxidermy, you wont be able to tear your eyes away from the curiosities inside. This volume brings together the very best of the worst (along with a DIY Stuff Your Own Mouse lesson by an Insect Preparator from the American Museum of Natural History), showcasing the most perverse yet imaginative anatomical reconstructions of the animal kingdom youll ever see.

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TO MY TIGER MOM, WENDY SU

SEE? I TOLD YOU ID PUBLISH A BOOK ONE DAY.
WAIT, THIS ISNT WHAT YOU HAD IN MIND?
DANGIT.

Copyright 2014 by Kat Su All rights reserved Published in the United States by - photo 1

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.
www.crownpublishing.com
www.tenspeed.com

Ten Speed Press and the Ten Speed Press colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.

Originally published in Great Britain by Cassell, a division of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd., an Hachette UK Company, London.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Su, Kat.
Crap taxidermy / Kat Su. First U.S. edition.
pages cm
1. TaxidermyPopular works. 2. TaxidermyHumor. 3. TaxidermyPictorial works. I. Title.
QL63.S84 2014
590.75dc23
2014019795

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60774-820-5
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60774-821-2

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Taxidermy is a multidisciplinary artform. A competent taxidermist has an encyclopedic knowledge of anatomy, the laser-like precision of a world-class surgeon, and an artistic sensitivity to the physical world that rivals God Himself. The chances of a mere mortal mastering any of these traits is very slim, and the likelihood of becoming proficient in all three is virtually non-existent.

In the summer of 2009, I moved into an apartment in Brooklyn, New York, and aspired to give my sad living situation a touch of class by incorporating some dead animals into the decor. After scouring eBay and Etsy for taxidermy (a deer head to be precise), I quickly realized that the taxidermy available on the Internet could be classified into four categories:

1) Good taxidermy.

2) Bad taxidermy.

3) Weird-as-hell good taxidermy.

4) Weird-as-hell bad taxidermy.

Consequently, I launched the Crappy Taxidermy Tumblr to document the latter three categories. Since the sites creation, I have obsessively kept track of every bug-eyed, misshapen, bizarre, awkward, or just-plain-wrong piece of taxidermy that I was able to find online. As the site grew, readers started submitting photographs of their own taxidermy, and sightings of crappy taxidermy that they had found in museums, roadside attractions, stores, art galleries, or peoples homes.

Considering all the weird, creepy taxidermy pictures I have accumulated on my hard drive since working on the Crappy Taxidermy blog, I had always speculated that I would be in jail by now for crimes against good taste.

However, Im thrilled that the exact opposite has happened. This book is a celebration of crappy taxidermy and the eccentric and amazing people who create it. Regular taxidermy endeavors to give the illusion of life to the non-living, but crappy taxidermy highlights the subjects state of death due to the animal being contextualized in a completely surreal or absurd way. This book will present examples of taxidermy that is in a permanent state of rigor mortis, taxidermy that is so anatomically incorrect that it could be considered a crime against nature, and my personal favorite, taxidermy with hilarious over-the-top facial expressions.

The spirit of the book isnt meant to be disparaging, and I hope that people will delight in looking at the strange and preposterous specimens on display in these pages. A very special thank you to the taxidermists, fine artists, readers, and well-traveled photographers who contributed the pictures in this book.

FOX WITH EYE TRANSPLANT

SPOTTED IN CAIRO, EGYPT

KARATE-LOVING LIONESS

SPOTTED IN YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM

BEST FRIENDS FOREVER

SPOTTED IN NEW YORK, USA

EARNEST FOX

SPOTTED IN ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

FEARSOME BARN OWL

SPOTTED IN OHIYA, SRI LANKA

FLAT WOLF

SPOTTED IN RHODES, GREECE

BEWILDERED BADGER

SPOTTED IN POCHEON, SOUTH KOREA

EXTINCT BROWN BEAR

SPOTTED IN NEWTOWN, AUSTRALIA

PREDATORY BROWN BEAR

SPOTTED IN STEYL, THE NETHERLANDS

CRUSTY PANDA

SPOTTED IN CHENGDU, CHINA

ALIEN-EYED SERVAL

SPOTTED IN KUCHING, MALAYSIA

HUNGOVER CAT

SPOTTED IN PYONGSONG, NORTH KOREA

EARLESS SNOW LEOPARD

SPOTTED IN POKHARA, NEPAL

HUNGRY HYPNOTIZED OCELOT

SPOTTED IN QUETZALTENANGO, GUATEMALA

ATTENTIVE SERVAL

SPOTTED IN STAVANGER, NORWAY

COCK-EYED BORNEAN CAT

SPOTTED IN KUCHING, MALAYSIA

INCONGRUOUS RABBIT SPOTTED IN JUBAIL SAUDI ARABIA SECRET LIFE OF OPOSSUMS - photo 19

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