I have the book Windows on Nature which is about the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. The book talks about the dioramas at the museum and the story of how they were made and how the animals in the dioramas were collected. Reading the book, I realize just how amazing Carl Akeley was. This man pioneered taxidermy, was one of the first people to bring back information about mountain gorillas in the wild, and on top of that, survived being attacked by an elephant and a leopard! Not only did he survive a leopard attack, but he also killed the leopard that tried to kill him by strangling it to death.
