There was another glass case nearby. If I’m not wrong, they contained specimens confiscated from smugglers.
The pelt of a Banded Palm Civet.
Turtles. I used to see about 5 or 6 in one of the primary science labs of my school. The lab technician in the secondary science lab told us that they came from specimens confiscated by the police and donated to the school. They used to stack them up on top of the cupboards. There were many other stuffed animals too (snakes, frogs, small rodents) and some of them had toppled over. When I graduated, they were still lying there. (Perhaps cause no one dared to pick them up?)
A very cute Sun Bear cub. Unfortunately it’s dead.
Tiger claws?
There’s a section on animals eaten as food. Some people may find this unsettling, but yes, people in Southeast Asia do eat this stuff. I eat some of it, but not all of it of course, I’m not that crazy! But would I eat it if I was offered it? Hmmm…. that’s a tricky question.
Look at these cute little lizards and toads! Some people do eat them for medicinal value, the dried Tokay Gecko (lizards) to treat coughs, the dried snakes for rheumatism and dried toads to purify the blood.
Dried veil of Stinkhorn fungus, scales of Pangolin and ‘fa cai’ (dried black moss or black hair fungus, fa cai means ‘hair vegetable’ in Chinese). I don’t know much about the other two, but facai is traditionally eaten during Chinese New Year as its name sounds similar to the Chinese words for ‘get prosperous’. I’ve eaten some before, it’s in strands like hair but not as tough. Doesn’t taste of anything though. Lately, there was a warning not to eat fa cai cause it could be toxic (due to pollution maybe?) 
Tarantulas and Centipedes. Thais and people in parts of the Indo-Chinese region eat them. ‘Nuff said.
Cordyceps. Is it a plant or an insect? It’s a plant that grows in an insect (explained in a video here). This herb is damn good. I had dengue fever once and was nearly hospitalised, thanks to this herb I recovered quickly with no problems and no serious symptoms. It strengthens the immune system. Unfortunately it’s also damn expensive, in fact some shops will put metal wires inside them to make them heavier as they’re sold by weight. (By the way, who the hell eats Lalang flowers anyway? They’re so damn hairy!)
A Black Marlin. The person beside it is my sister. Her sole purpose in this picture is to give a sense of the size of the fish. Some people actually hunt this thing (the fish, not my sister).
