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Carl Akeley: Fighting Leopard, 1896

Carl Akeley is one of the world’s first-class explorers from early 190. Confronting dangerous wild animals marked his African safari hunting trips. He revolutionized taxidermy by painstakingly learning an animal’s anatomy for natural specimens. In 1896 he was hunting ostriches when he fought off a battle to death with a leopard and emerged victorious, although only just.