Nola taxidermist gives raging bear erect posture

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Leslie Dalton Roger is waiting for an ostrich to die.

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Dalton's ominous bear was a star at the Louisiana Taxidermy Association booth at the recent Louisiana Sportsman’s Show at the Superdome, where passersby posed for selfies beneath its outstretched claws and bared teeth. She said she mounted the impressive mammal for display in the enormous double parlor of her neoclassical Garden District mansion.

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It takes a big beast to hold its own in a room with a 16-foot ceiling. But generally speaking, Dalton prefers preserving smaller creatures. Peacocks are her specialty.

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Dalton planned on a career as an artist. The Metairie Park Country Day High School graduate studied at the prestigious New School in Manhattan, New York. In the course of her avant-garde art education, Dalton produced surrealistic oil paintings that featured manikins and animal bones, nudes rendered in sticky corn syrup and strange temporary sculptures made from Jell-O.

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