TAXIDERMY is the art of preserving and mounting animal specimens. It is a combination of two Greek words – “taxis” and “derma” – which means skin arrangement. It is one of a museum’s special methods to preserve dead animals’ skin and mount it on artificial bodies to make it appear as lifelike as if it were in its natural habitat.
A taxidermist is required to understand the anatomy of the animals and be skilful in skinning, tanning, shaping, and sewing the skin that has been preserved. The preserved animals are useful for exhibition, education, research, and referencing.
Taxidermy work requires permits from the Wildlife and National Parks Department.
There are more than 75,800 specimens of floral, faunal and geological collections that are still kept by the Museums Department, with some dating back to as far as the 1890s.
Despite all efforts to set up a natural history museum since 1989, Malaysia has yet to establish such an institution, unlike neighbouring countries such Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam, says Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Nancy Shukri.
Nearly every nation in the world has a natural history museum to educate their societies on the variety of fauna and flora found in their respective countries. – May 9, 2022.
Third-generation taxidermist Mohammed Ali wrapping a Sumatran rhinoceros (dicerorhinus sumatrensis) specimen, preserved in 1901 by taxidermist E.J. Keilich from the Perak Museum, with a gentle touch after an exhibition at the National Museum. The Sumatran rhino was declared extinct in Malaysia in 2019. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Mohammed Ali cleaning a pangling/purple swamphen (porphyrio porphyrio) specimen with a soft brush at the end of an exhibition at the National Museum. – Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Museum staff working on taxidermy specimen documentation at the National Museum. – Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Museum staff working on a cenderawasih/lesser bird of paradise (paradisaea minor) specimen at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Staff wrapping a specimen at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.A taxidermy display on mammals at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Third-generation taxidermist Mohammed Ridhuan Akhiruddin (left) arranging a 1980s helang siput/white-bellied sea-eagle (haliaeetus leucogaster) specimen for a photoshoot at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Ridhuan arranging a kuang raya/great argus (argusianus argus) specimen for a photoshoot at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Bird specimens arranged for a photoshoot at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Third-generation taxidermist Mohammed Ali closely inspecting a sewah berjambul sayap perang/chestnut-winged cuckoo (clamator coromandus) specimen at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Photographers from the Museums Department capturing a taxidermy specimen for a documentation purposes at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Museum staff arranging a katam tebu/Malayan krait (bungarus candidus) specimen for a photoshoot at a museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Museum staff cleaning a rhinoceros hornbill (buceros rhinoceros) skeleton at a museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Museum staff photographing a 1964 linsang/banded linsang (prionodon linsang) specimen at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Taxidermists Ali (left) and Ridhuan (centre) cleaning a badak Sumatera/Sumatran rhinoceros (dicerorhinus sumatrensis) specimen from 1901 preserved by taxidermist E.J. Keilich from the Perak Museum, at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Ridhuan cleaning a 1971 harimau kumbang/leopard (panthera pardus) specimen with a soft brush at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.Museum staff transferring a buaya tembaga/saltwater crocodile (crocodylus porosus) specimen at the end of an exhibition at the National Museum. - Pic by Ahmad Yusni, May 9, 2022.
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