Difference between revisions of "Turtle skin"
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Revision as of 15:24, 26 April 2017
Large sea turtles are protected. They used to be hunted for their flesh. The tortoise shell and leather were partly processed. There are many different kinds of turtles all over the world.
Sea turtles in a rearing station in Praia do Forte near Salvador in Brazil.
Free-living sea turtles in Búzios, Brazil and land turtle in the Pantanal, Brazil.
Mounted turtle and leather handbag made of turtle leather, seen in the (DLM - German Leather Museum in Offenbach).
Customs seized handbag from tortoise leather and combs made of tortoiseshell.
Video about leather of different animal species
Leather of different animal species - Exotic leather.
Other exotic leather
- Alligator leather
- Alpaca fur
- Antelope leather
- Armadillo leather
- Bird leather
- Bull testicles
- Caiman leather
- Camel leather
- Carpincho leather
- Cat fur
- Chicken leather
- Crocodile leather
- Dog leather
- Donkey leather
- Elephant leather
- Fish leather: Eel, shark, salmon, moray eel, stingray and many others
- Frog leather - Toad leather
- Giraffe leather
- Hippo Leather
- Horsehide - Horse leather
- Kangaroo leather
- Llama Fur
- Lizard leather
- Ostrich leather
- Pangolin leather
- Peccary leather
- Rumen leather
- Sealskin leather
- Snakeskin
- Walrus leather
- Yak leather
- Zebra hide