Lesson Two: Get a common pigeon. Lesson Three: Acquire tools—scalpel, bone scraper, brain spoon, arsenic …) The father of modern taxidermy, as anyone who picked up a scalpel and a squirrel ...

Bird curator Hein Van Grouw reveals how taxidermy is still bringing nature to life, centuries after the first animals were preserved. On the first floor of the Museum's Hintze Hall, 38 pheasants rest ...

Beyond the mallard duck drones, the team is advancing the project by integrating shape memory alloys into the claws of a taxidermy pigeon, aiming to enable it to perch and observe a scene.