Tom Gnoske

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• i think thats probably all we can go into that >
• they wanted to make the displays more appealing to children >
• Colonel Patterson was in Chicago for Something >
• A letter from Colonel Patterson in the Archives >
• the whole underside is hollow >
• traditionally taxidermy was about taxonomy >
• later we pulled in national museums of kenya >
• david western wouldn't take no for an answer >
• in short, taxidermy is... >
• here they are! these are the ones in the movie >
• nobody on the kenya side knew the lions were in chicago >
• the story of the lions is more meaningful in kenya >
• carl akeley made taxidermy into an art form >
• there were thousands of hairs embedded inside of the teeth >
• roland ward produced the trophy rugs >
• probably they're the only specimens anywhere that were first made into rugs >
• when we got the rugs there were real skulls in there >
• it took many months for the trophy rugs to become taxidermy mounts >
• jim corbett was a famous tiger slayer >
• the historic taxidermy isn't really throw away >
• traditionally pesticides would be used to preserve them >
• they really need restoration >
• now we have freezers full or birds. they didn't have that then >
• they wanted to make them look as good as they could >
• there was one letter in a separate archive >
• the information we are learning is ongoing >