The scholar and author Jane Desmond points out that “Taxidermy is reserved for wild not domesticated animals” (166) and I am reminded that I have seen many of the same animals represented in fake taxidermy. It seems we want to preserve the memory of deer, elephants, bears, and anything with antlers. The colonial practice of hunting game animals in foreign lands and bringing them home as trophies or even crossing into indigenous land to kill indigenous U.S. American animals is embedded in this distinction between wild and domestic animals, and the ways we choose to represent them in visual culture. The animals we see in faux taxidermy are the ones we could never get close to in real life because we would become prey. We do this with humans too. Just take a trip to any Madame Tussauds wax museum and you’ll discover which human bodies were worth immortalizing.