Not quite taxidermy... but still ... Daniel Firman 's elephant Würsa stand still and upside down on her trunk. The pachyderm could only manage this delicate exercise at a distance of 18,000 km from the earth.

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Walter Potter’s maniacal utopian tableau called “The Happy Family” crowded with with some rather gaunt and rigid animals cats, dogs, owls, frogs, falcons, a parrot, a monkey, a tortoise, and a piebald rat.