Dr Santosh Gaikwad and Taxidermy Centre , Sanjay Ghandi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai. The centre is a workshop where carcasses of animals dying in sanctuaries and forests across the country are restored as animal trophies. “The first room is utilised for skinning and separating skeleton, the second for modeling and moulding of the animal form and the third room for finishing and storage,” said Dr Santosh Gaikwad, India's only officially licensed taxidermist and associate professor at the Bombay Veterinary College. Dr Santosh regards taxidermy as a
tiger skeleton ........................... Dr Santosh Gaikwad and Taxidermy Centre , Sanjay Ghandi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai. The centre is a workshop where carcasses of animals dying in sanctuaries and forests across the country are restored as animal trophies. “The first room is utilised for skinning and separating skeleton, the second for modeling and moulding of the animal form and the third room for finishing and storage,” said Dr Santosh Gaikwad, India's only officially licensed taxidermist and associate professor at the Bombay Veterinary College. Dr Santosh regards taxidermy as a multi-disciplinary art since it involves, carpentry, sculpting, anatomy and painting. These trophies are then displayed in museums for educational purposes and to impress upon people the unique place of wildlife in the nations assets. This comes on the back of a recent announcement that Byculla Zoo, the only zoo in the Indian city of Mumbai plans to stuff its animals after their deaths and put them on show in a museum. The move follows a ban by India’s central zoo authority on new animals being kept in confined spaces. Mumbai zoo says it is unable to replace animals as they die because existing enclosures for some animals do not conform with anti-cruelty guidelines. Stuffing the animals will at least allow people to see them, the zoo plan to set up a taxidermy museum as part of a $100m makeover at the zoo, which occupies 53 acres of land in central Mumbai.
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Location: Dr Santosh Gaikwad and Taxidermy Centre , Sanjay Ghandi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai.
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