Sunday, December 16, 2012

chameleon

micah's most recent restoration project was a five year old chameleon. the end result for the client will be a mounted skeleton in a shadow box and the skin tanned and preserved like a bear skin rug.
it took 30 minutes to cut the underbelly. every scale had to be cut individually in order to stay exactly down the center of the white stripe.
the tail was difficult because the only way to hold onto the small amount of skin was to use tweezers.
it took about 3 hours to skin the entire lizard because the skin was so delicate and thin. she didn't take out the innards because the collapsable ribs covered too much of the abdomen.
the dermisted beetles shockingly devoured the flesh and innards in less than 24 hours.

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