TY - JOUR
AU - GARDNER, GEORGE S.
AB -  The anesthesiologist began to administer the drug in the operating room at the New York Zoological Park animal hospital. The ninefoot Burmese python writhed uneasily in the grip of three handlers until the halothane took effect. Then the snake’s muscles relaxed, and the powerful reptile grew limp on the stainless-steel table. This was not a preparation for a surgical procedure but was a first-time attempt at making a mold from a living snake without injuring it or sacrificing its life. Until now molds have been made from dead specimens of fishes, reptiles, amphibians, and the like for museum exhibits. This usually meant making a flexible mold of the dead specimen, then producing a polyester resin cast, and finally painting the cast to reproduce the exact coloration of a live specimen. With the cooperation of the New Y ork Zoological Society, preparators from the Exhibition Department at The American Museum of Natural History have developed a new technique for making casts of living animals. In preparation for the first such procedure, on a Burmese python, David J. Schwendeman, senior taxidermist in the department, made tests to determine how long it took for hardening plaster-of-paris to reach temperatures above one 
TI - Casting Lifelike Models from Living Animals
JF - Curator the Museum Journal
DO - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.1974.tb01219.x
DA - 1974-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/casting-lifelike-models-from-living-animals-sEn54Y5Mjo
SP - 10
VL - 17
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -