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Metzer offers tours of the facility to the public. She said people are often conflicted when they come in. Some may find a ball python trimmed purse fetching while being repulsed by a lion pelt, or vice versa.

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Some of that art is made from the endangered hawksbill sea turtle. They are tagged and bagged in plastic here to protect them from insects. Jewelry boxes made of their luminous shells sit alongside them.

Yet amid this grisly tableau, Metzer finds reason for optimism.

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