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spotted hyenas

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Incomplete rodent skull

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A gorgeous German shepherd skull. He had extra premolar teeth!

This guy was found deep in the woods, partially decomposed, no collar and no chip. Searched local sites & vets to see if anyone had lost a dog of his description; nothing. Always do your due diligence when you find what may be a lost pet.

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Taxidermy Okapi, 1901

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My first ever bat study skin is done. The skull took 4 weeks of cold maceration to carefully clean.

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Initial photos before I begin work on my first ever bat study skin. Sculpting the fake body will be challenging since their body dimensions are so odd compared to the many birds I've done. I hope I can do this bat justice.

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two headed bat

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Just to show you a few Bats, these photos have been borrowed from Richard Lawrence (under licence) on flickr.

Here we have Common Pipistrelle, Brown Long Eared and Natterer's.

Out of 18 species, 12 are found here in the Birmingham and Black Country area. All three are found here. When you think about Bats locally you think about Sutton Park NNR or Dudley Castle both sites are home to 9 species each but our key site is Smestow and Wightwick in Wolverhampton with 11 species!

Leisler's, Brandt's, Nathusius's Pipistrelle and Lesser Horseshoe Bats are amongst those noted at the latter site.

@Brumbats do an awful lot of work to conserve our Bats aswell as all the important surveys and rehabilitation necessary for thier survival. They are still on the look out for Barbastelle and Bechstien's Bats which lie just outside of our grasp as a county record.

If you ever get the chance seeing Daubenton's Bats hunting over water, take it, it's a sight like no other. They are agile hunters who skim the waters surface after insects. If youre very still and quiet they'll get very close too, teamed up with a Bat detector youll recognise the almost machine gun like call.

27/04/24

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Smithsonian Part II

I made it back to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History right as it opened this morning, and had almost an entire hour to myself alone in the Vertebrate Osteo/Skeletal exhibit.  It was amazing!  I was so pleased to have the time to sit and enjoy all of the articulated specimens before the masses arrived, including getting almost 400 pictures of the displays.  Here are just a few of the highlights from the Apes, Marsupials, and Insectivores.

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Creachers….

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Natural staining left on an old raccoon skull from its tannin-rich swampy forest resting place… sososo pretty… you can see which half of its face was buried in the mud, and which was exposed to the air <3

It’s all washed up here, no dirt remains, these stains are one with the bone itself!

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I got this super pretty pelt and 3 new tails at the ren fest yesterday <33

I love them all

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Misfits - Thomas Grünfeld

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transparent version of misfit by thomas grünfeld