On Thursday, Matthew Chayes, a politics reporter for Newsday, tweeted an image of a guy riding the subway while carrying a taxidermied peacock, who appears to be as tall as the train car (if you ...

The post also made it to Reddit, naturally, and a Redditor by the name of BarFreddys commented, claiming to be the "peacock guy," a.k.a. the guy in the photo.

It was unclear whether the peacock was alive or taxidermied. Read More. Peacock destroys $500 of merchandise in California liquor store; Snake hangs from pole for ride on New York subway; ...

Taxidermy has been part of modern art’s vocabulary for decades. In the 1950s, Robert Rauschenberg incorporated both a stuffed bald eagle and a mounted angora goat in his mixed-media Combines and ...