SKULL IDENTIFICATION for the naturists

[xxpaintxx]

this is following the goose ID conversation.

this is an idea of all the different types of skull that one might find on their travels!

i also have duck, pigeon, gosshawk and buzzard, but i cant find em at the moment. i also have a collie dog to put up later as well.

first up a savage little creature when it comes to dentistry!
the stoat!


and one im sure everybody knows....
the common cat.


this guy is easily recognized. when you lift it up, the bottom jaw hangs in the skull as it is a locked jaw mammal
the badger.
the thin blade on top of his head is larger in males than in females.
so you can ID a badgers gender even when its dead.


now this is VERY VERY rare find.
you would not believe the look on my face when i found this beauty!
a pair of A* roe deer buck skulls, locked together in a rut, couldn't get apart, and sadly died together.
what a horrible way to go.
me and my partner have tried again again to separate these guys, to no avail. they are truely locked!


the largest i own at the moment
the Tamworth boar.
this guy was very old when he eventually died of natural causes.
he was my friends old pet on his small holding.
he only has 2 tusks in at the moment, as his owner wanted the top two as a keep sake.


and again off my mates small holding, a Jacobson sheep skull.
apparently he used to have 4 horns, but snapped one off in mating season, and we still have no idea how he survived that injury. he died of old age 2 years after loosing his 4th horn.


and finally for now, my pride and joy!!!
a mighty fallow stag!!!!
from nose tip to top of his antlers, he is 30 inches tall.
and at an amazing 11 points ( prongs on each antler) he is at least 11 years old.
prongs measure age.
in England on game keeper estate on a deer hunt, this boy would have been a "gold head" and would have cost at least 10k just to shoot.
needless to say i believe this guy lead a good old life, as he was found in a private woodland, away from shooting grounds.

[HABU]

[Shell195]

I think you should change the title to Naturalists as naturists are naked people


Where do most of your skulls come from? Are they roadkill?

[xxpaintxx]

Originally Posted by HABU

hey hunny that would be off a sheep!!!
very hard to tell from a female fallow, but the dip between the eyes gives em away everytime

[xxpaintxx]

Originally Posted by Shell195

I think you should change the title to Naturalists as naturists are naked people


Where do most of your skulls come from? Are they roadkill?

woops my bad!

[xxpaintxx]

Originally Posted by xxpaintxx

woops my bad!

the majority of my skulls are road kill yes although a few pets that have died of natural causes.

[Shell195]

How do you clean them ?

[xxpaintxx]

Originally Posted by Shell195

How do you clean them ?

theres the easy long way and the smelly short way.
easy, bury the bugger dig it up 6 months later, leave in rain and sun for a few months.
the earth eats away the flesh, the sun dries it, the rain washes it, the sun bleaches it after.
the hard smelly way is to boil the crap out of it.
personally i would rather bury. lol

after that i have a drill kit thing that you can fix different heads to. so i put on the wire brush and clean off the dirt with that. you can also use a tooth brush and bleach

[HABU]

sheep?... what's a sheep doing out in the middle of nowhere?

... very strange...

especially when no one really eats sheep here...

the case of the lost sheep... a mystery... i wonder how it got there?...

[stephenie191]

Never heard of anyone who collects real skulls, your the first LOL

My dads friend has alot of heads on his wall, from what hes shot but they have fur left on, etc