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Originally Posted by steve@thaib
Elephants in Colorado  . Seriously, I would watch it with some of those items. Maybe you should donate them to a museum? Though if they are legit (not shot last week) they might be quite valuable.
Can you put stuff like that on Ebay? |
I actually shot the elephant in Zimbabwe in 2003.
All the creatures were shot quite legally with required paperwork, etc.
A conversation with a US Fish&Wildlife Inspector says (from the USA perspective), all of the mounts can be exported legally, after inspection here and some paperwork.
Some of the mounts are worth a great deal of money and I could sell them on e-bay, but their value to me is not in terms of money. (The ivory however, worth ~$30k USD, cannot be sold per the CITES export regulations!)
I do appreciate your reasonable reply, though.
As far as the poster who confuses "animal mounts" with "mounted animals", my guess is he must be a "sheep man" from down under. Hey, but each to his own.
BTW I have visited Thai friends who have "European-type" mounts of barking deer and such in their homes, so it is not exactly a "Thai trait" to hate people who hunt.
Cheers!