Everything has to come from somewhere . For the taxidermied animals used in movies and photo shoot , that somewhere is often a British storage warehouse called London Taxidermy . But the high - profile business organisation took a hit last hebdomad when thievesmade off with£100,000 ( about $ 142,000 ) in binge animals and other antiques , ITV report .
London Taxidermy has been a fixture in the entertainment world for more than two decades . The overindulge beast housed in the Wandsworth , UK warehousehave appeared inNational Geographicmagazine , James Bond and Harry Potter movies , TV shows likeDownton AbbeyandDoctor Who , and advert campaigns for Cartier , Alexander McQueen , and Jimmy Choo .
“ This was not a random crime , ” Detective Constable Edward BirdtoldITV News . “ The burglars had came disposed and well outfit . This was a reprehensible enterprise and these stealer need to be stopped before they send further crime . ”
Police conceive the burglars force their fashion into the building between around 7 and 8 p.m. Tuesday night . They slip several antiques and 18 pig out animals , include a Martin Luther King penguin , a sloth , a zebra , two Panthera leo , two giraffes , and a grimacing Pan troglodytes in a top hat .
London Taxidermy ’s Alex Turner suspects the thieves were after something else entirely . “ I consider they were after rhino horns — that is my hypothesis , ” he said to ITV News . " I have a span of fibreglass ones on the site and they may have mistaken them for the real affair . So they just commence taking things at random . ”
Taxidermy and crime go together more often than you might think . Trading in endangered animal , even those that have been stuffed , is illegal in many area , butthat does n’t think of it never happens . As the London Taxidermy web site is careful to take down , all of the byplay ’s animals are ethically and de jure purchased , and all of them are already dead and stuffed by the time they strive the warehouse .
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