 The specimen took three years to complete – ten times longer than it takes to prepare a human body.Ten people are required to move the giraffe, because its final weight (like all specimens after plastination) is equal to the original animal.Many of the whole-body specimens are partially dissected in the Écorché style of 17th and 18th century European tradition, while others are sliced in various anatomical planes to permit understanding of anatomical structure.