Meddling with Nature

Taxidermy and art and stuff.

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Poor guy slammed into a window, let's see if we can make him better in the after life.

All skinned and enjoying a relaxing bath.

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The best thing about split mice? They come in pairs… Check out more fun work we do at meddlingwithnature.com

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Wishing you a very merry Groundhog day!

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Happy Family Day Canada!!!

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Wishing you a very merry Groundhog day!

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It's it obscene to wash a sea creature with another sea creature? (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7cXdLsBXnI/?igshid=ffgubcovtzph

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A little uromastyx pet preservation piece. I do love working on lizzies. 

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The 8th is Sir Alfred Russel Wallace's 197th birthday! Thanks for all the naturalist evolutionary good times Mister Sir.

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Have a good 505th birthday sweet Vesalius!!!

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My new taxidermy tutorial video has a dream sequence!

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Oldie but a goodie!

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Bat funeral

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kitties!!!! Sad he didn’t make it to see the light of day, but he is still cute after death. 

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And here we have the mighty General Woundwort from Watership Down sporting his lucky rabbit hand necklace. (yeah I know, some interpretation required...) 

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Here is a school bunny bored of reading Watership Down. General Woundwort photos coming soon! For those of you who have seen my stuff in Toronto, you can probably tell I have had a little bit of an obsession with this book lately.

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Recreation taxidermy of 17th century naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian’s Caiman plate for Lloyd Library’s “Off the Page” exhibit reimagined in three dimensions through taxidermy, insect mounting, and plant preservation. 

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Here is a little number I call Corner of Downe and Ought. Basically think if Jiminy Cricket blew all his disney money and was out on the street again. I am really liking these tiny dioramas right now. He comes in a bell jar, but I gave him a little backdrop for the photoshoot.

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Been a while since I posted here, cause i suck at social media. Gonna try to start sending stuff from this past year. Here we have a little Krampus for your consideration!