There are other forms of preservation apart from taxidermy. Plastination is another and is also used within contemporary art and science.
Dr Gunther van Hagens invented plastination, most people wll know him from the channel 4 series of him disecting animals.
He uses plastination to let the audience see inside the animal, he turns the animals liquids into polymers so it preserves them by basically making them plastic, he can also use dyes to make the liquids more clear and visible. by doing this, they become shock art. he uses animals that are donated to him, they are not harmed for this purpose or reason. so technically no animals were harmed to create art although real animals were used. again, this art questions life and death of the animal and therefore makes the viewer question their life and death .
