Video: Chimera Beasts: Strange Animals by Andrew Lancaster
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We are all familiar with ancient mythology, which inhabited the world with strange animals. The appearance of these bizarre creatures consisted of different parts of the body of a lion, a snake, an eagle, a goat, a fish … Hippocampus, griffins, chimeras, sphinxes and other animals were born by the imagination of ancient people, and now they are living out their days in modern fantasy. Taxidermist Andrew Lancaster also contributes to neomythology. A master living in New Zealand creates strange sculptures, combining animals, birds and dolls.
Chimeras are not only a valuable fur of invention of the ancient Greeks, but also a biological term. Strange animals with different body parts from different parents do exist. Nature resists, so it is not as easy to breed a living chimera with genetically dissimilar tissues as to make it stuffed. Well, no one will allow scientists to experiment with people at all, and taxidermist Andrew Lancaster successfully replaces human body parts with puppet ones.
Andrew Lancaster is from Great Britain, but has been living in New Zealand for 14 years - a country where there seems to be enough funny living creatures (by the way, he became a taxidermist just after the move). But no, a person gets used to everything. A couple of years ago, the scarecrow undertook to combine incompatible species and gave mankind many chimeras. From his light hand, three-headed chickens, kuklozaits and flying pigs appeared.
In New Zealand, the would-be creative taxidermist often saw knocked down animals on the side of the road. They can't return their lives anyway, so even if their remains do not rot on the track, Andrew Lancaster thought, he handed it back and picked up another find. Smaller animals are placed in the freezer, “under ice cream and vegetables,” for larger ones a special solution is prepared.
Andrew Lancaster works as a dock keeper, so he only deals with current taxidermy issues on evenings and weekends. Often, the animals have to wait until the owner has time to manipulate sawdust, rags and wire.
The author of strange animals has no problems with environmentalists, because he does not kill anyone for his creative experiments. But there are problems with the faithful: the spouse does not allow the creative taxidermist to turn the house into a cabinet of curiosities, so the newly created chimeras have to quickly look for new owners. Fortunately, inventions are always in price, and strange creatures regularly find buyers on the Internet.
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