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In this episode, we explore the impact of natural history museums and the taxidermied specimens within them. Through one particular animal, Clarence the Gorilla, we learn what the art and science of taxidermy tells us about humanity and about our response to climate change and the rapidly growing environmental anxiety that accompanies it. We delve into the the figures behind the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the infamous dioramas in Akeley’s Hall of African Mammals, specimens sitting in their own unique worlds, still and silent, behind glass.