Large Animals Mounted By Reimond Grignon
Mountain goats are a beautiful animal. I have mounted both life size as below, and head mounts of these animals.
I have mounted many cats such as these leopards for various museums and people.
These animals are very beautiful and endangered. They can only be taken by special permit, usually only given to museums, and then only those animals which are presenting a danger to humans.
You can see by the these pictures just how expressive these animals look. I try very hard to make the animals look natural and real without any of that face less look usually associated with mounted wildlife. Looking at these mounts, you would swear the animals were alive and breathing. Right down to the last whisker on their face, there are no finer mounts.
These large lions were mounted for a museum. They are taken by special
permit only. Lions have become so numerous in parts of Africa that it
is possible to see ten or twelve lions lying on a rock with children playing
near by. Many are destroyed each year by game wardens when the lions become
too numerous and dangerous. These wonderful cats are very large and powerful.
They could kill a human very easily. I only know of one guy that killed a large Lion with just a sword. The story is in the Bible....
This is a close up picture of another mount.
The detail is superb. You would expect this mount to get up and walk away at any minute it is so natural. The lion, not the girl!
This is a picture of my daughter Amber.
This large black bear was taken in Palmyra, ME just a short distance from the taxidermy studio. He weighted in excess of 400 pounds. The Grizzly Bear came from Alaska.
This small bear cub died by getting itself entangled in trash left in the woods. I decided what better way to demonstrate to children what can happen when trash is not properly disposed of than by mounting this little fellow in this pose. This little bear has been viewed by countless school children as the surrounding schools bus in children to visit our small museum. This cub bear won First Place and best of category in the Masters Division of The World Taxidermy Competition.
This is a wonderful sitting bear that also took a blue ribbon in a National Taxidermy Competition.
This is another very large standing black bear mount .
The interlocked chain hanging on the wall was cut out of one piece of wood using nothing but a chain saw by my father, Walter Grignon, who used to make part of his living craving chains and wood land critters with his chain saws.
This bear is much larger than he looks here. It was mounted for and and put on display in a restaurant. The animal weighed in excess of 250 lbs.
