Giving new life to dead animals

Bovard working at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Los Angeles where the creation, care and keeping of creatures is a responsibility the last full-time museum taxidermist takes both seriously and joyfully. — Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times

AT 11, Tim Bovard undertook his first taxidermy experiment on a piece of roadkill.

He had found an unlucky skunk and improvised its reanimation using an instruction book, much to the alarm of his friends’ parents.