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FORT WORTH, Texas, April 17 (UPI) -- Items up for auction at the World Class Big Game Trophy Mount & Western Auction in Texas include a mounted hippopotamus and a pair of 6-foot elephant tusks.
John Brommel, organizer of the sale at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, said the hippo is one of 700 taxidermy mounts to be auctioned Friday and Saturday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Friday.
"It's huge -- one monstrosity of a piece," Brommel said of the hippopotamus. "It probably weighs 700 pounds."
Other mounts up for auction include a black rhino shoulder mount, a polar bear and a 15 1/2 foot marlin.
Organizers said the items came from the collections of two natural history museums and three big-game hunters.
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