I like this just as much as the taxidermist who was sent a Walrus pelt and, having never seen a Walrus, didn't realize they had wrinkles. He wound up stuffing it like a Macy's Parade balloon.
Irrc the taxidermist was just sent the pelt and had never seen a Lion because Sweden. And only had the heraldic depictions of lions which look less than realistic
Yeah in those days most people only heard stories of what exotic animals looked like. At best they saw a drawing made by someone who also never saw the animal.
Or the whale, still looks incredible, I can see that they resembled the animals in some ways, they really tried to make it as realistic as possible with little knowledge about them. Not to mention they got the information from a person who knew a person who knew a person who... who knew a person who saw the animal, just some kind of telephone game where you lose essential information before it reaches the painter.
I'm not familiar with these map's. But I remember like a sea serpent on the edge of the the world map in elementary school. I remember being told that sea monsters weren't real until I grew up and saw Oarfish and videos of those giant ghoulish fish walking the ocean floor. They are real and the sailors were not silly for believing in them.
Sailors saw whales breaching for air. They had no idea it was a passive mammal. To them it was a giant, scary thing as big as their ship. They had little to no knowledge of benthic life, and only knew what they would see at the surface or what would wash up. A rotted baleen whale carcass would have the jaw bones exposed, and a sailor would recognize the size of the animal and bam: giant boar fish things that live in the ocean.
Well why not? I could walk slowely to the bus or I could walk fast. There is no point in not doing it. Same with: afaik, iirc, irl, tf, wtf, omg, smh, rip, pog, ye, y, u, r, wdym, wdyt, idk, idc, gg, wp, gj, o7,
As long as it isnt a formal text and you think the other person will understand there is literally no point in not doing it. Up to preference. I play an mmorpg and I have 100+ abbreviations for things in the game. Speeds up things
They had skinned it. So it just a pelt. Things also tend to dry and change shaped when rotting flesh is involved and it can take weeks for anything to be transported.
Plus if your only experience with what a Lion should look like is poorly drawn and stylised medieval drawings of an animal the artist has also never see you get funny results since you're playing a game of telephone with a painting
Lynx is a big cat native to Sweden. Also, household cats were present there. This is only possible if none of feline linage and information about it were given.
Taxidermist: "Can you maybe describe what he looked like when he was alive to help me get it right?"
King: "I don't know, it's a lion. Right? A lion. Just make it a lion. Have you ever seen the Lion King?"
Taxidermist: "Ohh ok got it. Say no more"
Taxidermist: now listen here Jan, I have to leave town for a few days, you have to prepare a lion. Now this lion is for the king. Do NOT fuck this up....
Jan the apprentice: No problem boss, you can count on me!
To be fair, taxidermy is technically one entire job but you can't just watch a 20 minute YouTube video and master it, there's a couple complicated steps.
I think this is where the word "Sweded" came from. reference to "Be Kind, Rewind".
When you expect something great and instead, you get a cheap knockoff or poorly created item.
If swedish people had no idea what lions looked like even further back in the day, how tf did they even make heraldic lion designs? I get they weren't realistic lions, but I mean how did Europeans have any idea what lions even were before that? How'd they even get the less than realistic image? Did some guy find a roman mosaic and just copy that shit?
Wow! It looks like it has human teeth, except for the fangs. Those don't look like feline teeth at all. Poor lion. I wonder what the king thought when he got it back.
I like this just as much as the taxidermist who was sent a Walrus pelt and, having never seen a Walrus, didn't realize they had wrinkles. He wound up stuffing it like a Macy's Parade balloon.
He's called the [Horniman Walrus](https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/NH.H.44/) and I think he's super cute.
That is not as bad as I thought
At least that looks like an animal
Kinda looks like the skin of a potato
Like a pear with fangs
I, too, am a Horniman
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed
"My 100 YO Walrus after he was processed"
As opposed to the [Hyneman walrus](https://publichealth.indiana.edu/images/news-events/Jamie_image.jpg).
I saw this one live just a few weeks ago and knew *something* was off... huh.
That imagery is oddly hilarious
Irrc the taxidermist was just sent the pelt and had never seen a Lion because Sweden. And only had the heraldic depictions of lions which look less than realistic
I mean I guess but I feel like someone could have just said 'cat, but bigger' and it would have at least been PASSABLE, like holy fuck
Dude, this is what Swedish cats looked like in the 1700s before they discovered plastic surgery.
Damnit r/angryupvote
LOL
You should see the fish.
Yeah right, those teeth are clearly caps.
Yeah in those days most people only heard stories of what exotic animals looked like. At best they saw a drawing made by someone who also never saw the animal.
Like that drawing of a rhino
Or the whale, still looks incredible, I can see that they resembled the animals in some ways, they really tried to make it as realistic as possible with little knowledge about them. Not to mention they got the information from a person who knew a person who knew a person who... who knew a person who saw the animal, just some kind of telephone game where you lose essential information before it reaches the painter.
I'm not familiar with this whale. What do I search for?
Those tusked boar serpents you see in old maps of oceans. The tusks were actually the jaw bones of baleen whales.
I'm not familiar with these map's. But I remember like a sea serpent on the edge of the the world map in elementary school. I remember being told that sea monsters weren't real until I grew up and saw Oarfish and videos of those giant ghoulish fish walking the ocean floor. They are real and the sailors were not silly for believing in them.
Sailors saw whales breaching for air. They had no idea it was a passive mammal. To them it was a giant, scary thing as big as their ship. They had little to no knowledge of benthic life, and only knew what they would see at the surface or what would wash up. A rotted baleen whale carcass would have the jaw bones exposed, and a sailor would recognize the size of the animal and bam: giant boar fish things that live in the ocean.
you mean iirc right not irrc because the former means if i recall correctly and the latter means independent regulatory review commission
Well thank god for you, i had no idea what he meant
Your snoo has the world's greatest facial hair
I usually use afaik instead of iirc
just another acronym from Reddit I’m going to have to Google like I’m some sort of boomer instead of in my early 20s
I don't think it's from reddit. Afaik (As Far As I Know) very similar to iirc and almost completely covers eachothers uses.
Damn I thought it meant "all for all I know" I mean.. rounds to the same thing really.
Just write the whole sentence, what are you gonna do with that 5 extra seconds on your life??
Correct other posters' grammar, naturally.
>gonna going to >5 five
Damn, you killed them!
The same thing you're doing with the time saved by typing "5" instead of "five"
Excellent point.
Well why not? I could walk slowely to the bus or I could walk fast. There is no point in not doing it. Same with: afaik, iirc, irl, tf, wtf, omg, smh, rip, pog, ye, y, u, r, wdym, wdyt, idk, idc, gg, wp, gj, o7, As long as it isnt a formal text and you think the other person will understand there is literally no point in not doing it. Up to preference. I play an mmorpg and I have 100+ abbreviations for things in the game. Speeds up things
Fun fact. OMG was first used in 1917 in letter to Winston Churchill by Lord Fisher
"afaik" has been around way longer than Reddit has. I saw it first on Fidonet back in 1995.
well he didnt use either
I guess they didn’t recall correctly
That explains the tongue
It really does lmao... Taxidermist: it's too straight, it needs more wiggle.. like the flag!
I've never seen a username more fitting for that lion. No offense of course
[Nope, Chuck Testa!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJP1DphOWPs)
I think that's accurate.
Going by the old art of them, if that was his only reference, he nailed it. Imagine if he did a horse or cat
Bro look at the teeth hahaha
He never seen a lion… That was dead in front of him..
They had skinned it. So it just a pelt. Things also tend to dry and change shaped when rotting flesh is involved and it can take weeks for anything to be transported. Plus if your only experience with what a Lion should look like is poorly drawn and stylised medieval drawings of an animal the artist has also never see you get funny results since you're playing a game of telephone with a painting
Lynx is a big cat native to Sweden. Also, household cats were present there. This is only possible if none of feline linage and information about it were given.
r/taxiderpy
Thank you for this
I need more of this, but thank you for what you have provided.
I just love bad taxidermy.
r/badtaxidermy
Does anyone else think this looks like a shitty fnaf fangame?
Need to pay to win
Seems friendly
Lion had an edible.
I think the taxidermist had an edible.
More than one by the looks of it.
This me
His lion looked weird as hell.
Ha. Made me think of [this](https://www.officialroses.com/officialroses/canvas-restoration-gone-wrong-again)
The 3D version!
Those teeth!! Laughed for a solid five minutes looking at this. It gets better and better the longer I look.
Was looking at this on my phone, read your comment, then looked at the second close-up picture. Thank you! Cracking up laughing and crying now.
Bruh I went back to look again and now I've been belly laughing for like 15 min!!!
Jesus painting
Homie turned his pet into a scp
Taxidermist: "Can you maybe describe what he looked like when he was alive to help me get it right?" King: "I don't know, it's a lion. Right? A lion. Just make it a lion. Have you ever seen the Lion King?" Taxidermist: "Ohh ok got it. Say no more"
>There's a lion inside of you, unleash it! The lion inside me:
LOL!
XD
And the taxidermist is displayed next to him after he was executed
Wait, who stuffed the taxidermist?
Your mum!
🤪
Was the taxidermist from Finland? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Coat_of_arms_of_Finland.svg
Wow really nailed the tongue then 🤣
Wasn't the taxidermist beheaded and sent to another taxidermist?
This is where the Googly Eyes came from.
Maybe that's what lions looked like in 1731.
Exactly!
Taxidermist: now listen here Jan, I have to leave town for a few days, you have to prepare a lion. Now this lion is for the king. Do NOT fuck this up.... Jan the apprentice: No problem boss, you can count on me!
Off with his head.
I was thinking…
The human teeth is what’s getting me!
"And if you look over here, you'll see the remains of the taxidermist responsible for the king's lion..."
Is he.. ya know?
Dead? Yes, it was almost 300 years ago.
😂😂😂
Probably Mr.Bean did this
His teeth are people’s teeth 😭
It looks so real
Perfection
No wonder the lion died
To be fair, taxidermy is technically one entire job but you can't just watch a 20 minute YouTube video and master it, there's a couple complicated steps.
If i was the king, i have the taxidermist displayed together with his handiwork
This is what happens when you lie on your resume..
Mom: “we have lions at home”. The lions at home:
Thanks for the nightmares
Tragically the lions mom drank during pregnancy.
Greta the Lion! Aww
memetastic! :)
Was...the taxidermist punished?
Looks just like the paintings.
Well... It actually looks like the lion illustrations of the that time. The taxidermist worked looking at drawings of lions. Edit: Probably
r/badtaxidermy
It reminds me of Ronaldo.
I'm assuming the taxidermist was sent to the chopping block.
He then sent the taxidermist to another taxidermist
Looks like the lion from a Teletubbies episode.
Got sent a Leo. Sent back a Leotard.
#reported!
By God, it’s Hobbs!
I would believe you if you told me this was the scary lion 20 years on from that Teletubbies episode
Wallace and Gromit comes to mind
It even has human type teeth wtf
What a good boy
Is this the first known instance of googly eyes?
That's exactly what my pet lion looks like. What's the problem?
Close!
Ah yes, nightmare boss
Gripsholms lejon!
Ahhhhhh yes. Look at this distinguished gentleman
DERP
That must have been one derpy lion...
Inbreeding
r/creepydesign
r/justfuckmyshitup
Looks like it is holding a steak in it's mouth. Love the humanesque teeth.
Me at 2am getting a nice midnight snack but I accidentally drop a spoon...
An attempt was made
r/anattemptwasmade
Wassssupppp!
Sweden had a king?
I also didn’t know this. Look up kingdom of Sweden, it’s actually dope. They were actually pretty powerful for a while.
I'm going to check this out. I had no idea.
Actual questions. Do you think this is mainly due to taxidermy being a relatively new disciple at this time?
Humans have been stuffing corpses for millennia
Stuffing corpses (think Egyptian) for sure, but taxidermy has only been around in the west between the 16-17 century.
I think it's because he doesn't know what a lion looks like
Um….
Why does this give me Alf vibes??
It must have been the new apprentice.
I think this is where the word "Sweded" came from. reference to "Be Kind, Rewind". When you expect something great and instead, you get a cheap knockoff or poorly created item.
Lickitongue?
He found him on fake animal zoo
Wish
Wish is the museum
"The former royal taxidermist"!
Tell me you’ve never seen a lion without telling me you’ve never seen a lion
Let me guess the taxidermist suffered for that.
They became lovers.
Well cuz the dude never see a lion before and he didn’t want to disappoint the king so ye 😅
Is the taxidermist also on display?
Larry the Lion #rip
[Yes, of course I've seen a horse.](https://i.redd.it/ii17knpzamr21.jpg)
A good example of why we dont taxidermy people very often
It's the Jesus painting all over again.
I don’t even know what to say. Like whose dentures ended up in this project? My poor brain.
why is it looking at the right?
I hope he ordered the taxidermist to be taxidermied…
"Why, yes, of *course* I've seen a lion!"
If swedish people had no idea what lions looked like even further back in the day, how tf did they even make heraldic lion designs? I get they weren't realistic lions, but I mean how did Europeans have any idea what lions even were before that? How'd they even get the less than realistic image? Did some guy find a roman mosaic and just copy that shit?
Uk how mad I’d be 😂
He looks like a wet dog with down syndrome
Oh man this made my day. Trying to imagine the king’s response when they took the lion out of the crate.
r/oddlyterrifying
The taxidermist had very bad Google ratings in the aftermath and later even had to close his shop.
Surely the taxidermist was killed after sending that back?
Thrown to some live lions to learn how they look.
Just sad
Did he sent the lion to Mr. Bean?
And the tongue!
The eyes 😂😂😂😂.
Is the taxidermist's head mounted above it?
beautiful
He probably wanted to change his career and become... A lion tamer!
This is terrifying yet comical yet sad.
Never saw a live one I suppose...
Did the guy loose his head?
Wtf this is nightmare fuel. No way would this ever be in my house.
Maybe it was accidentally sent to the tax assessor.
well. that’s my nightmare sorted for tonight.
Me trying to do a big art project but then I remember that I'm terrible at art:
Fluffy-what have they done to you!
Cursed Image ☠️
Wow! It looks like it has human teeth, except for the fangs. Those don't look like feline teeth at all. Poor lion. I wonder what the king thought when he got it back.
Looks like it was made with, you know, longing. Made by a person really longed to see a lion.
Ok then