> locals know to pull over, carefully wrap up the deceased animal, and drop it off at the city's Natural History Museum.

This explains why the museum has about 40 koalas in its freexer waiting to undergo taxidermy when the ABC visits.

Possum deserved a better end than this.
>This possum specimen at the Armidale museum has been left half completed by Queensland Museum taxidermist Alison Douglas, to show the intricate details of the taxidermy process.