Back a bit more on topic. . . 100 years ago or so I dated a fellow whose roommate worked as a dolphin trainer at one of the Sea World-type parks in the SF Bay area (can't remember what it is/was called then). They'd been called in when a dolphin beached, and when it didn't survive he collected the skull, had it beetle-cleaned, and mounted in a glass display case. It was quite an impressive site in their otherwise college-dorm-level-of-decoration living room.

My mother had a bunch of "nature stripped" skulls in an outbuilding on her Wyoming property, we left them there when we moved her to SD. Probably still there, unless the last renter cleaned them out! Mostly coyote and pronghorn IIRC.

I've looked longingly at the sabre-tooth tiger skull repros in catalogs but really can't justify the purchase.

Thanks for sharing your work! The otter is particularly interesting to me -- is that the same one you collected for a future sporran? Did I miss the fur story, or is it still in the works? She was such a lovely creature.