Bill Munns
Member
User name is my real name (never liked screen names, personally). Loved animals all my life and would rather do a zoo than any big ticket theme park. Have personally kept Bali Mynahs, Indian Rollers, Blue-BellyRollers, Palawan Peacock pheasants, Pekin Robins, Blue Crown Mot-Mots, Short Tail Cissas, Baraband Grass Parakeets, plus some herps.
Quite accomplished in a rare form of wildlife art, sometimes called “synthetic taxidermy”, where the goal is to create full-scale sculptured likenesses of birds and animals, detailed with feathers or hair, but not using the natural hides of the species like real taxidermy does. So a real animal need not die to make the sculpture.
Love Hoatzins, Stellar’s Sea Eagles, Turacos, and Cassowaries, but enjoy just about any living thing. Firm believer that any captive animals need the largest enclosure that is physically possible, with the most bio-diversity in the habitat, to be healthy. Would have my own zoo if I could figure out how to pay for it.
Looking forward to joining this community. My kinda place.
Bill
Quite accomplished in a rare form of wildlife art, sometimes called “synthetic taxidermy”, where the goal is to create full-scale sculptured likenesses of birds and animals, detailed with feathers or hair, but not using the natural hides of the species like real taxidermy does. So a real animal need not die to make the sculpture.
Love Hoatzins, Stellar’s Sea Eagles, Turacos, and Cassowaries, but enjoy just about any living thing. Firm believer that any captive animals need the largest enclosure that is physically possible, with the most bio-diversity in the habitat, to be healthy. Would have my own zoo if I could figure out how to pay for it.
Looking forward to joining this community. My kinda place.
Bill
