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Man fined after 700 frozen and taxidermied animals found on Victorian property
Antiques store owner, 74, pleads guilty to 13 charges after regulator uncovers hundreds of animals at his home and shopGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe white-walled room packed with magpies, galahs and sulphur-crested cockatoos, foxes and possums is eerily quiet. As a video pans across shelves filled with these and many other species, there is no flapping or squawking or hissing; the animals are frozen and silent.They are among the more than 700 native animals that were found illegally taxidermied and frozen that were seized from the property of a Victorian antiqu...
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