Although the word "taxidermy" literally means "moving of the skin", there's much more to it than just taking the hide of a dead animal and put it on a wooden frame. In fact, taxidermy has become some blanket term for preservation of animals and parts of animals in a very general sense. Like cleaning bones and skulls is commonly considered part of taxidermy, and so is the exhibiting of bugs and butterflies in often beautiful, glass-lidded, display cases. In a very realistic sense, even the ancient Egyptian mummification of kings, queens and commons is a form of taxidermy - although we hardly think of it that way. It's not really usual to exitedly say, after a visit to the Egyptian Museum in Caïro: "We saw farao Ramses II. They had him stuffed"! Although "stuffing" is exactly what they did to the royal stiff, more than three thousand years ago!