Believe it or else, there's a bunch of interesting applications for rubber and plastic in the field of taxidermy. For example(s):
You can use moldmaking rubber to reproduce antlers, bones, and even entire (dead, thankyou) animals. Smooth-On has a cool piece on how they used Mold Max silicones to reproduce an alligator snapping turtle!
The big fish you caught gets stuffed, but the bony parts get replaced with plastic ones.
And you remember that deer? When it gets mounted, the skin gets stretched over a urethane foam "body", so to speak.
Take a guess as to what the eyes are made of. Uh huh. |
