Eladio Fernandez / Cuban kite (Chondrohierax wilsonii) taxidermy specimen, Cuba. Critically endangered species.

Emanuele Biggi / Deserta Grande wolf spider (Hogna ingens) and other spider specimens in a display case, Funchal's Natural History Museum, Madeira, Portugal.

Inaki Relanzon / Man with taxidermy specimens and ivory tusk confiscated by the Spanish police at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in accordance with CITES, stored in a government warehouse, Spain, October 2014.

Inaki Relanzon / Taxidermy specimens confiscated by the Spanish police at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in accordance with CITES, stored in a government warehouse, Spain, October 2014.

Inaki Relanzon / Man with taxidermy specimens confiscated by the Spanish police at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in accordance with CITES, stored in a government warehouse, Spain, October 2014.

Inaki Relanzon / Man with taxidermy specimens confiscated by the Spanish police at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in accordance with CITES, stored in a government warehouse, Spain, October 2014.

Inaki Relanzon / Taxidermy specimens confiscated by the Spanish police at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in accordance with CITES, stored in a government warehouse, Spain, October 2014.

Inaki Relanzon / Man with taxidermy specimens and endangered wildlife products confiscated by the Spanish police at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in accordance with CITES, stored in a government warehouse, Spai...

Inaki Relanzon / Taxidermy specimens and endangered wildlife products confiscated by the Spanish police at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in accordance with CITES, stored in a government warehouse, Spain, Octobe...

Inaki Relanzon / Man with carved ivory tusk, taxidermy specimens and endangered wildlife products confiscated by the Spanish police at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in accordance with CITES, stored in a governm...

Inaki Relanzon / Taxidermy specimens and endangered wildlife products confiscated by the Spanish police at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in accordance with CITES, stored in a government warehouse, Spain, Octobe...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Stuffed Wild cat (Felis silvestris) Lagosta hunting concession, Velebit Mountains Nature Park, Croatia, April 2014.

Jiri Lochman / Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) taxidermy model, Tasmanian Wilderness UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site, Tasmania, Australia. Extinct

Jose B. Ruiz / Stuffed Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) above line of toy animals, Kuusamo, Finland. May.

Jose B. Ruiz / Brown bear (Ursus arctos) stuffed in gift shop, Kuusamo. Finland. May 2016.

Pal Hermansen / Polar bear teddy bear in window, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, July.

Pal Hermansen / Polar bear stuffed animal in shop window, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, July 2016.

Laurent Geslin / Taxidermist Daniel Guyard with Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) taxidermy, from young wild male lynx which was found dead on a railway in 1982. Grenoble Natural History Museum, France, May 2013.

Laurent Geslin / Taxidermist Daniel Guyard with Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) taxidermy, from young wild male lynx which was found dead on a railway in 1982. Grenoble Natural History Museum, France, May 2013.

Suzi Eszterhas / Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) orphaned baby clinging to stuffed animal, Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica

Dave Watts / Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) specimen in Launceston Museum, Tasmania, Australia.

David Tipling / Ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) skins, Natural History Museum, Tring, UK. Extinct species, occurred in USA and Cuba.

David Tipling / Skins of extinct Ivory-billed woodpeckers (Campephilus principalis) female (left) and male (right) in comparison with Pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) male in middle. Natural History Museum, T...

David Tipling / Pair of Ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) skins, female on the left, male on the right. Natural History Museum, Tring, UK. Extinct species, occurred in USA and Cuba.

David Tipling / Skins of extinct Ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) male (right) in comparison with Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) male (left). Natural History Museum, Tring, UK.

David Tipling / Ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) skins, Natural History Museum, Tring, UK. Extinct species, occurred in USA and Cuba.

Ernie Janes / Yellow Labrador puppy with teddy bear.

Mark Taylor / Maltese x Shih-tzu pup, Leo, 13 weeks, with a teddy bear, against white background

David Tipling / Huia (Heteralocha acutirostris) taxidermy specimen. North Island, New Zealand. Extinct species.

David Tipling / Passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) taxidermy specimen from North America. Extinct species.

David Tipling / Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) taxidermy specimen, from North America. Extinct species.

David Tipling / Stuffed Passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) from USA. Extinct species.

David Tipling / Sparkie the Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) 1954-62 winner of the 1958 BBC caged bird contest and famed for its mimicry ability - being able to recite ten nursery rhymes, 383 sentences and 531 wo...

Roland Seitre / Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) reconstructed model. Natural History Museum at Tring, London.

Roland Seitre / Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) reconstructed model at the Museum of Natural History, Paris, France.

Roland Seitre / Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) reconstructed model at the Berlin Museum, Germany.

Roland Seitre / Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) model, at the Museum of Natural History, Paris, France.

Roland Seitre / Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) reconstructed model at the Berlin Museum, Germany.

Mark Taylor / Cute Toy goldendoodle puppy sleeping on teddy bear.

Suzi Eszterhas / Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) orphaned baby, with cuddly toys, part of rehabilitation program at Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica.

Suzi Eszterhas / Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) Judy Avey-Arroyo with orphaned baby sloth part of rehabilitation program at Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica.

Suzi Eszterhas / Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) orphaned babies with cuddly toys, captive part of rehabilitation program at Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica

Suzi Eszterhas / Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) orphaned babies with cuddly toys, captive part of rehabilitation program at Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica

Ernie Janes / Yellow Labrador sleeping on owners bed with teddy bear.

Laurent Geslin / Taxidermist shop with stuffed animals and man working on Baboon, Namibia. 2004

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Stuffed local wildlife including Badger and Hare in tourist hotel, Velebit Nature Park, Rewilding Europe area, Velebit mountains, Croatia

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Stuffed local wildlife including brown bear in tourist hotel, Velebit Nature Park, Rewilding Europe area, Velebit mountains, Croatia

Ernie Janes / Taxidermy shop with great variety of stuffed animals for sale including Common hare (Lepus europaeus), Europe

Suzi Eszterhas / Serval (Leptailurus serval) kitten, five week old orphan carrying stuffed animal in mouth, Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya

WILLIAM OSBORN / Trophy room, Klipspringer lodge, Nelspruit, South Africa

Toby Sinclair / Glass cases with stuffed animals for sale, Borobudur, Java, Indonesia

Toby Sinclair / Snake attack scenes made with stuffed animals, for tourist trade, Borobudur, Java, Indonesia

Toby Sinclair / Snake attack scenes made with stuffed animals, for tourist trade, Borobudur, Java, Indonesia

Bristol City Museum / Traditional Museum display case of stuffed animals, Bristol City Museum, UK.

DAVID TIPLING / Victorian collection of stuffed birds from Earlham, Norfolk, UK

Roland Seitre / Stuffed Javan tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) specimen, an extinct tiger subspecies. Bogor Museum, Java, Indonesia.

Roland Seitre / Giant Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) taxidermy specimen in museum,Tasmania.

Roland Seitre / Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) orphan baby with stuffed toy, native to Borneo

Suzi Eszterhas / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) eight-month-old joey clinging to stuffed animal during veterinary procedure, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Queensland, Australia

Suzi Eszterhas / Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) orphaned babies clinging to stuffed animal toy, Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica

Suzi Eszterhas / Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) orphan clings to its stuffed animal surrogate mother, Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica

Tim Laman / Full skin of Wreathed hornbill (Rhyticeros undulatus), skull and casque of Rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) and casque of young Helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil), displayed on floor as troph...

Ugo Mellone / Last specimen of Pyrenean subspecies, bucardo, of Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) housed in museum. Torla, Aragon, Spain. August.

Roland Seitre / Quagga (Equus quagga quagga), an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra, endemic to South Africa, striped skin detail, Natural History Museum, Paris, France. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

Konrad Wothe / Bird-of-paradise (Astrapia sp), stuffed specimen for sale on market stall. Papua New Guinea. 2019.

Bruno D'Amicis / Taxidermy specimen of Almiqui / Cuban solenodon (Solenodon cubanus) exhibited in Museo de Historia Natural Tomas Romay at BioEco, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Critically endangered

Tui De Roy / Embalmed remains of the last Pinta saddleback tortoise (Geochelone abingdonensis) named 'Lonesome George'. With backdrop photo of Pinta Island donated to the public exhibit by Tui De Roy, Fuas...

Philippe Clement / Taxidermy African animals in the AfricaMuseum / Royal Museum for Central Africa, ethnography and natural history museum at Tervuren, Belgium, 2019