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Fur flies as Penney restocks dog-fur coats – NBC News

news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeJ.C. Penney Co. removed some fur-trimmed coats from its racks around Christmas after animal-rights activists objected that the fur came from wild dogs in China.Last week, the department-store company put the coats back on the racks — but only after directing employees to use marker pens to […]

30 Taxidermy Fails From This IG Page That Are So Bad They’re Good – Bored Panda

Taxidermy is the practice of creating lifelike representations of animals’ carcasses for education, scientific research, or simply decoration. To talk a little bit more about it, Bored Panda reached out to ethical taxidermist Krysten Newby.Typically, the goal of taxidermy is to create a lifelike representation of the animal, yet some artists aim for more stylized […]

A gray wolf has entered Sequoia National Park for the first time in a century – latimes.com

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred A wolf known as BEY03F seems intent on making history over and over again.The 3-year-old, black-furred wolf has become the first of her kind known to venture into […]

Arsenic exposure on University of Alaska Anchorage campus leads to removal of taxidermy collection – thenorthernlight.org

Taxidermy of a hoofed mammal currently on display at ARLIS — not available for checkout. Photo by Murat Demir.For two decades, the ARLIS library checked out taxidermy pieces to the public, only to later discover they contained arsenic, mercury and lead. Following the discovery, the taxidermy collection was removed with no public explanation. The Northern Light […]