New Skull Sets for the Library.

[tyger]

When you collect your roadkill for further processing, you might want to prepare the skull sets for keeping among the "nature items" in your library.

Clean skulls ready for some assembly. Beaver, otter, skunk, and bird.


Pairing up the loose molars, premolars, and canines.


Pairing up the incisors.


One look at the cusps on these otter molars tells you he doesn't eat many vegetables!


Otter (L) and skunk (R).


First beaver skull from many years ago.

[Tobus]

Ah, I see you are a fellow skull collector! My wife and I share the same affliction, although we are nowhere near as detailed about it. We actually prefer our skulls in a more natural state, with only a handful of them being cleaned and bleached and lacquered. We have skulls all over our house; everything from a hummingbird skull to a horse skull, also including cow skulls, goat skulls, deer and antelope skulls, fox skulls, hog skulls, all manner of bird skulls, and many more I can't even remember. I don't know why we like them so much. I guess it's a morbid fascination with the anatomical structure of a creature's head... or trying to match the shape of a skull with the living face of the animal it came from.

They're fascinating to look at, that's for sure.

I'm jealous of your beaver skull. We don't have beavers down here. That thing looks absolutely primeval! You obviously do a very excellent and detailed job with your skulls.

[cavscout]

Very cool collection Mark! Those animals appear to have an incredible dental plan (correction, had an incredible dental plan)

[tyger]

One of these days I will post some pictures of my camel skull, but when I collected that one I was on another assignment and it didn't have anything to do with my sporran hide list.

[Nighthawk]

Skull collecting! Just when I thought I had heard of all the weird hobbies people have... That's really cool! I'm impressed with all the detail you go into! I had no idea people did this!

[Bugbear]

Skull collecting! Just when I thought I had heard of all the weird hobbies people have... That's really cool! I'm impressed with all the detail you go into! I had no idea people did this!

That's what you need to do, Hawk; a new hobby.

I know several people who collect skuls and bones etc for use as models in art.

There's a flesh eating beatle that cleans them up, and also ants, or even the middle of a good compost pile.

[BoldHighlander]

There's a flesh eating beatle that cleans them up, and also ants, or even the middle of a good compost pile.

A buddy of mine, who gave me "Spur", takes the partially cleaned skulls he's going to keep & just puts up on the roof of his workshop for a few months, lets "nature" work them over

[Woodsman]

That's what you need to do, Hawk; a new hobby.

I know several people who collect skuls and bones etc for use as models in art.

There's a flesh eating beatle that cleans them up, and also ants, or even the middle of a good compost pile.

I almost forgot about the 2 turtles (Chrysemys, Terrapene) in my compost pile. One is in a nylon screen bag and another just buried as is. At the time I tried to mark their location by allignment with trees, now I forget where the hec they are. It will be like trying to find a turtle in a haystack.

[azwildcat96]

I love it! The last one I collected was a coyote, and it was donated to my daughters pre-school class. The kids thought it was really cool!

[Tartan Tess]

Just from where I sit now I can see a warthog, beaver, snapping turtle and a Buffalo skull.
We collect too. In the next room there are two very large alligator skulls getting their teeth redone and various other creatures scattered around the house, inside and out.