Seized Menagerie

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Reporter Eric Whitney takes us to The National Wildlife Products Repository outside Denver, Colorado. Here, more than a million illegal wildlife items ?including stuffed tigers, snake boots, and dried seahorses ?are catalogued, stored, and donated to schools, museums, zoos, and research facilities.

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