• @[email protected]
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    129 months ago

    Is this actually a thing anywhere. I haven’t heard of anyone calling it anything other than “a taxidermy” or “taxidermied [animal name]”

    • body_by_make
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      229 months ago

      This is a play on words, you normally wouldn’t call it a stuffed animal, but it is technically a stuffed animal. The joke in the comic is that it subverts expectations.

    • @Sludgeyy
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      99 months ago

      “Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal’s body by mounting (over an armature) or stuffing, for the purpose of display or study.”

      From Wikipedia

      “I have a mounted deer head”

      “I have a stuffed raccoon”

      I think it’s common

    • @Harvey656
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      79 months ago

      Actually yes, know quite a few people who got weird taxidermist cats and raccoons, not necessarily for their birthday bit for other occasions.

      Appalachia is a strange place.

    • @nBodyProblem
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      49 months ago

      Yes, when I was a kid in CA people would describe taxidermied animals as being “stuffed”

      I distinctly remember the parks department bringing in “stuffed” owls and cougars and stuff into class during first grade to teach us about the local wildlife. It was rad.