I was just doing some homework when I came across the word chimera. I couldn't help myself but to look up pictures on chimeras, and then I found a picture of a "turkey chimera". I looked it up and found a website with the works of three taxidermists, and I must say... their works are REALLY creapy! No, actually, they're not just creepy. They're repulsive and disrespectful. I feel quite odd about it, because I am of the opinion that any type of art, no matter how morbid, should be allowed. But those works... They started to get too much, even for me. I looked through all the pictures, but not without feeling great discomfort. In their works they used carcasses of different animals. In one of the pictures they put a number of skinned animal carcasses and put them in unnatural positions. For instance, one couple of skinned squirrels are "dancing" with each other and another pair of squirrels are boxing each other. However, some works were a liiiittle more OK. Still, a majority of the pictures were experiments where they've taken parts of different animals and put them together to look like a different type of chimera. In case you feel that you have a REALLY STRONG stomach, here's a link to the website:
Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists/chimera.
However, now I have checked the website's homepage and cannot find the page in the previous link. But I found Sarina Brewer (who I thought was the best of those three taxidermists) and the pages about her works. The category "Fantasy works" is clearly my favorite of her categories. Her page still contain pictures that are... well, not nice if you don't like looking at dead animals, but still seems more professional than the previous page mentioned. Here's a link to her page:
Custom Creature Taxidermy : Sarina Brewer.
