It could be a line out of a bad-joke book, but these stuffed animals and at least 30 more will be auctioned at Haywards Auction House this month.
The stuffed animals arrived from Central Otago this week.
They were originally owned by Eden Hore, of Dansey's Pass. Mr Hore died 16 years ago, afterwhich his nephew John Steele and his wife Margaret Steele took over the 1970s Fashion Museum.
The couple had now sold up and have chosen to sell the 30 to 35 stuffed animals in an August 21 auction in Dunedin.
The giant yak bull, from Toronto, would probably attract the most attention and auction house owner, Kevin Hayward, said it could sell for between $2000 and $3000.
''In the past, taxidermist animals have gone quite well here. It's a wee bit unusual.''
Animals included a peacock displaying its feathers, an angry looking boar, a coyote, foals, fawns, rabbits, calves and an angora goat.
Mr Steele said all of the animals had lived on the farm and many of them had been imported by his uncle.
His uncle once had yaks imported from a Toronto zoo, which bred the yak which would be auctioned.
When the animal caught tuberculosis, it was put down and stuffed.
Miniature horses had been imported from North America by Mr Hore who had a zoo licence to keep the animals at his property, Glenshee Park, on Dansey's Pass Rd.
All of the taxidermic work had been completed by the O'Rourke family, of Pleasant Point.
