Slide Show: The Right Stuff

The American artist Christopher Marley grew up with Australian parrots in his freezer. His father, a longtime aviarist who developed attachments to the unusually colored birds that he bred, stored them there when they died. Later in life, as Marley was struggling to balance his interest in taxidermy with his distaste for killing organisms, it occurred to him that there must be others like his father. "These people spent their lives devoted to animals, and they couldn't bear to part with them," h...