09:30 The polar bear, the honey badger and the moose: Dunedin's taxidermy auction
Nine To Noon
English - March 24, 2022 20:30 - 8 minutes - 7.39 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A 6 foot 5' Alaskan polar bear is making a star appearance at an auction of taxidermied animals in Dunedin on Sunday. Some of the other museum-quality mounts going under the hammer include a North American Stone Sheep, three species of Moose, five species of Caribou, Bison, a Kodiak Island Blue Fox, a Zebra Skin, and a Honey Badger. Kathryn Ryan speaks with auctioneer Ronnie Proctor, who's seen a few things in the forty years and three generations his family have run Proctors Auctions. Their stock-in-trade is Georgian and Victorian era antiques and furniture. But this Sunday's auction might just steal the show. Last time they had a polar bear it fetched $40,000.