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This is beautiful!!! I love the set up on this!! The rock and the lol white flowers really add a lot to the decor!!

But thats a raccoon skull! And a really cool one at that!!

first time making anything like this! i think it came out pretty good. thanks to the coyote and the bumble bee for being so dang beautiful

#vulture culture #vc #replies #keep up the great work!!!

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Cross fox at sunset in Tulit'a, Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Team wry nose

#skull #deer #god i love that #so funky

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Yea! Absolutely! A great way to see how constant infections affect bone is to look at animal skulls with tooth infections/dental diseases!

Often times, if i remember correctly, if the infection was long LONG lasting, repetitive, the bone will start to look spongey, swollen, and can be flakey and fragile even, esp with dental disease

Like in this coyote! Can even have more noticeable holes, especially (i think) if an abscess was involved?

heyo weird question uhh

does anyone know if constant infections will affect bone? and if it does are there any images of it?

i need it for a character ^^; all images i can find of bone infections are usually still in the body, but i find it easier to understand cleaned bones

#not much of a medical or sciency person!! #just a bone collector so this is something I see in skulls I find/collect!! #i have a few deer bones that had infections in them #bone tumors also kinda look like that too #so that could be a good reference image if you need something more dramatic #i hope this helps! #replies #vc #mine #ALSO these are not my pics #just some references off google

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hey fellow folks. apparently tumblr is banning the words b0nes, s.kull, and d.eath. Which is fucked up. And means vulture culture and taxidermy content is gonna get impossible to find. yikes.

be careful how you tag

#oh fun #oh joy #cmon tumblr

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Looks like a cat skull of some sort! Probably a domestic cat judging by the size alone! Really neat find!!!

Need help identifying this skull. Found on mount. Paraska near Lviv (Ukraine). When i found it, most teeth were already lost so i don`t know what they looked like with teeth Sorry for the photo quality.

#replies #vc #such a lucky find! #hope this helps!!!!

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Lynx in the Harz National Park

#nature #kitty #if dangerous predator #why look like kibby cat #why kissable toe beans #hm? hm nature?

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They MIGHT be dermestid beetle larvae! if you dont mind looking up bugs, you can go see if they look like the bugs on the skull. Taxidermists and Vultures use those beetles to clean the skulls and sometimes the babies get left behind.

Hey guys, we ordered a fox skull from a small vulture culture shop, but when it came in the mail it had tiny little light-colored bugs crawling all over it.

We have no idea what they are and Google isn't turning up any answers.

Could anyone who's into taxidermy or vulture culture help us identify them and figure out what the issue is?

#i dunno if you already looked them up or not! #i know they can get pretty dang tiny #there are also dif types of them #if those arent the bugs you see then I have no other idea lol #i just know sometimes the skulls i get have dead baby ones on them I have to clean off too so #hope this helps at all!!! #mine #replies

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I'm just curious why animal names need to have the periods in them? For example, b.ob.c.at, etc.?

Great question! It has to do with tumblr's tagging and searching system! Even though a post may not be tagged as "#bobcat", it will still show up in tumblr searches for "Bobcat". And if you dont break up the word, then some poor soul who doesn't want to see skulls, bones, pelts, or dead animals, who may be trying to scroll through lovely art and pictures of their fav animal, is gonna get quite the unwanted shock! So its mostly just a courtesy thing!

#asks #replies #vc #mine #helps make sure that its only seen by folks who WANT to see bones and dead things #and makes it at least a LIL less likely some rando is gonna burst in your ask box calling you an animal murderer or some slurs

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#skulls

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Raccoons are notoriously greasy little beasts, my best guess is that it wasnt fully degreased, and if the box was warm at all this summer, sitting wrapped up in the heat drew out some more of that deep grease, but sometimes it happens just over time in general! Tragically I don't know of any options that wouldn't require ruining the glue, but if it helps any, sometimes degreasing can take months by itself, so it can be something you put aside and leave it for when you have more time for projects! The easiest method would be to soak the whole thing in warm dishsoap-y [clear dishsoap preferred so it doesnt get dyed at all] water and let it soak for however long it takes for the water to stop getting foggy between changes! But ofc, this means the glue will likely come undone and you will have to be careful not to lose any teeth between changes.

hey can anyone who knows about bones offer some insight here?

i bought this raccoon skull at a ??gift shop?? a few months ago and when we moved i packed it in some bubble wrap, it was in a box for probably 2 months and when i unpacked it today it was super yellowed. unless my memory is faulty and i bought it like that, i’d assume this is a result of something that happened while it was packed, or it was just greasy to begin with. i think it may have also been treated/sealed with some kind of epoxy or lacquer and it’s definitely a real skull. i’m not too torn up about it but if there’s a way i can whiten it (assuming it’s been lacquered) without ruining the glue then i’m open to suggestions. as if i’m not up to my neck in projects already lol

#replies #vc #i hope this helps at all #i have a raccoon skull that also had grease return recently #but i've been too lazy to start soaking it again yet lol

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B.ob.cat and a Domestic Ki.tten

#skull #skulls #vulture culture #animal skull #animal bones #bones #dead things #mine #finally ventured out to get better pics lol #the ki.tten skull is so small it makes the bo..bcat look huge liol #lol*

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Here's a reminder to kill this fucker with no hesitation if you see them!

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Really happy to add an old hippo cranium with nice patina to my collection! A hippo skull has been top of my list for a while.

#king #that has GOT to be heavy #dedication to the photo #but also a SICK skull!!!! #yooo!!! #skull #hippo