Possibly, concurrent to the time of the elephant escape, the word got out that the Peabody found many of their artifacts were too dusty/moth eaten to afford the expense of restoration and you could quietly go over and bargain for that which was out for disposal. One Classmate procured a full-size mounted leopard &8212; bet it made a great coat &8212; my Daughter has a real leopard coat &8212; remaining as a vest. I came into possession two spread winged ducks (five dollars) &8212; one of which was launched repeatedly between myself and a roommate’s mother up for a post-football game party. She still boasted of such engagement forty-five years later, before her death. The remaining duck hung in my living room until a wing was shot off.