Is crap taxidermy doing Aussie animals a disservice internationally?
abc.net.au/news/poor-taxidermy-making-fattypuses-out-of-australian-animals/101827332Have you heard of a flatypus? How about a platysausage or a fattypus? These are all terms coined by Jack Ashby to describe badly-stuffed taxidermy platypuses.
"Australian mammals are less accurately depicted in museums than any other group of animals I've come across," Dr Ashby said. "The taxidermist had to imagine what the animal looked like when they were rebuilding it, which has led to a lot of mistakes," Dr Ashby said.Dr Ashby says people are most likely to come across Australian species in museums, so accuracy is crucial if the animals are to be understood."I think it's part of a bigger story of the way that the world represents Australian mammals," he said.
Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University Gaye Sculthorpe is a Palawa woman from Tasmania. "Museums with natural history collections in the UK are increasingly aware of the need to give attention to other ways of seeing the world, rather than only through Western systems of classification," she said.
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