New Skull Sets for the Library.

[BoldHighlander]

Hey, just hedging my bets! But now I've done some searching and can be very specific - the answer is the gr... Oh OK, honey, I'm coming! The Goddess calls! Back later.

Yep....you cheated too!

[Tartan Hiker]

[Woodsman]

So what's the answer, canines or raptors? If birds of prey wouldn't owls be the logical choice?

[sydnie7]

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.

[Tartan Hiker]

OK, time to end the mystery and stop the hijacking...

Great Horned Owl. Skunks are primarily nocturnal, so other raptors don't have a fair shot at them. Mammalian predators give them a wide berth. Since owls can't smell an ammonia factory, they have no trouble eating a fat, careless skunk. I've never picked up a Great Horned Owl that did not smell of skunk.

Somehow haggis doesn't seem so bad now...

[tyger]

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.

Yes, indeed. That is her skull. I tanned the skin; however, I have not made the sporran.


sydnie7, you will recognize this, I am sure:

[artificer]

Yes, indeed. That is her skull. I tanned the skin; however, I have not made the sporran.

HooBOY! That is going to make a beautiful sporran! Have you decided on the style of bag?

[tyger]

HooBOY! That is going to make a beautiful sporran! Have you decided on the style of bag?

Nope. Otter = southern Apalachian seal.

[artificer]

Nope. Otter = southern Apalachian seal.

I'm getting that. I may have to order up some otter pelts.

[tyger]

I would say "You otter do that!"