Fact #6

Taxidermists are people who preserve no longer living animals. Their jobs are important because it allows scientist as well as you and me to see what animals look like. By looking at a preserved animal, we can see what color it is, it's anatomy, how it's muscles sat on it's body, as well as giving us a clue that this is what an animal looked like. Without taxidermist we would not be able to know what many now extinct animals look like. They also preserve animals that people hunt and turn them into trophies to remember what an awesome animal it was. In North America, the bobcat is the most common mammal that are prepared by taxidermists.