Animal house
Authorities in France seized three stuffed lions, three leopards and a giant crocodile head from a private home and turned them over to Paris's natural history museum.
The specimens were brought back from an African hunt in the 1980s and stored in a home near the eastern city of Besancon along with dozens of other animals that the homeowner's late father had killed and stuffed.
Customs agents seized the specimens after a tip-off last year. Even dead, the animals are protected by the Washington Convention on trade in endangered animals. The hunter's son was given an undisclosed fine.