This is what I understand from way back when . . .
The Morse family paid big bucks to make the Leesburg Airport an international airport so that they could bring in wild animals (lions, tigers, etc.) for their "canned hunt" project in Ocala.
For those of you who do not know what a "canned Hunt" is, here is the definition from Wikipedia:
A canned hunt is a trophy hunt which is not "fair chase", typically by having game animals kept in a confined area such as in a fenced ranch to prevent the animals' escape and make tracking easier for the hunter, in order to increase the likelihood of the hunter obtaining a kill.
I shudder when I even think about it, but I will assume the animal heads in their sales office in Sumter Landing are trophies from their "canned hunt" property. It makes me sick to walk through those rooms.
I was very surprised to learn that this property was being sold and wonder what has happened to the surviving animals which were left there???