The ad is dead in the link, but from what people have said I'm assuming the hubbub was about a taxidermy piece/skin?
As a taxidermist I'm pretty biased on this, but I find that it's an art form that provides me with an opportunity to learn about animals on a very detail oriented level. I don't really judge people on where they get their material, I work mostly with birds, but it's not like there's a bloodthirsty bunch of people out to get every animal that ever lived. It's different, and there are people out there willing to do more than what could be considered humane to get a unique specimen, but there are also people out there keeping Burms and Retics till they get too big and then "liberating" them to replace them with another cute small snake. Every hobby has it's village idiots, and it's rather silly to call it disturbing on the grounds of it being different without perhaps considering more angles? Take a look in most museums to find something involving taxidermy and in some cases see animals that you can't find anymore
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