LIONS! Me, along with a rockstar team, got to be apart of helping Master Taxidermist/All around the best person you could hope to meet/my mentor Tim Bovard achieve some of his diorama dreams. He has had these Tanzanian wild death lions for around thirty years in the freezer. Last year we added the two females that now sweetly grace the from of the diorama, and this year the male scratching and the grooming female! Tim has taught me the importance of staying true to nature to create the most accurate representation of the scene you are depicting. Having wild death lions adds just another layer of authenticity to the diorama; and getting to work on large cats performing natural cat behaviors like grooming and scratching is such a treat (and in this case, a once in a lifetime opportunity to help be apart of helping Tim create his vision) . . . . . . . #taxidermy #lions #lion #liontaxidermy #naturalhistory #process #processpic #installation #museumexhibit #diorama #african #africandiorama #taxidermist