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| AUSTRALIA: February 11, 2005 | ||
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SYDNEY - A mini zoo housing a giant Burmese python, two iguanas and a freshwater crocodile was discovered in an apartment in Sydney after police were called to settle a domestic dispute.
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John Cavaleri, who kept the animals in his bedroom, was fined A$1,000 ($769) by a local court on Tuesday for illegally possessing the exotic and protected animals, a court official said on Thursday. Behind glass tanks in Cavaleri's bedroom in the Bondi Beach apartment lived a 100-kg (220-pound) python, two adult green iguanas and a freshwater baby crocodile, the court was told. The exotic animals were taken to Sydney's Taronga Zoo, but Cavaleri was allowed to keep his pet monkey and several cats. (US$1=A$1.30)
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