Humans have created many captivating things — the cure for polio, the iPhone, a contraption that allows ladies to pee standing up.
But nothing is as fascinatingly creepy as taxidermy. Taxidermy, which derives from the Greek word for “arrangement of skin,” is the art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals for display at museums, academic settings, and hunters’ trophy cases. It is also often used in the preservation of late and beloved pets.
True story: I once went to a taxidermy competition in Brooklyn and one gentleman made an entire hat out of crab and lobster claws. He called it “crab hat” and it consisted of shellfish he had devoured over the course of two years. I was truly in awe.
But then I saw the below video. This man, Bart Jansen, is also responsible for making a plane out of a dead shark and a jet-propelled badger submarine.
He even made a helicopter out of his dead cat.
“People keep on saying it's animal cruelty, but my cat was already dead and I didn't kill him. I really was sad, but that didn't stop me from making a completely absurd monument,” Jansen told Mirror Online.
In the video below, he has taken the art of taxidermy to new heights again — literally!
He got a taxidermy rat, added propellers, and…you just have to see it with your own eyes. Jansen calls it “RatCopter.”
Please SHARE this video with everyone you know, because, hey, when else are you going to see something like this?
