{"id":1481,"date":"2025-06-30T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmonaagencialiteraria.es\/libros\/the-taxidermist-the-duke-and-the-museum-elephant\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T08:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:48:42","slug":"the-taxidermist-the-duke-and-the-museum-elephant","status":"publish","type":"av_libro","link":"https:\/\/carmonaagencialiteraria.es\/en\/books\/the-taxidermist-the-duke-and-the-museum-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taxidermist, the Duke, and the Museum Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1913, the Duke of Alba hunted an elephant in Sudan and donated it to the newly opened Natural Science Museum, of which he was a patron. The museum director thought it an impossible task and ordered the skin stored away; but Luis Benedito, the new taxidermist, had other plans. Having studied taxidermy in Germany with the best experts, he was determined to stuff the largest land animal on Earth. 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