"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Sunday, January 17, 2010
The Beast of Baton Rouge
It's difficult to describe the pride I feel to share this picture with you all.
My girls ran to me recently as I parked the car after work: "There's a dead animal in the ditch. Come see! It's SO COOL!"
Here's B with with her prize find. Can anyone identify the dead beast? This looks like a job for Darren...
Matt, if you're on Facebook, check out the "You know you're a redneck falconer when" group, especially Niki Peretta's posts. She's got some great things about what falconers' kids learn ;)
Hello, I am most curious about your dogs. Do you have website with more pictures of them? What are their pedigrees? They look like COO Salukis, am I right? I would be most thankful for your answer. viktoria[dot]guwallius[at]gmail[dot]com
Raccoon seems to be a reasonable identification, but it's a little bit small. Do you have ring-tails or cacomistles or anything like that out East? If not, I would hazard that it's a small raccoon.
They have much longer leg bones than I would have thought just looking at the living animals.
Bigfoot, clearly. (but seriously, Dave might know. I'll send him a link.) We needed you yesterday, when Zach wanted to bring a dead bird home that we found while waiting for the MLK march to start. I just wasn't equipped . . .
I haven't seen a live armadillo, sadly, in years! I'm thinking skunk although after last nights news cast it COULD be a Chupacabra. They just found one here in East Texas! Mystery solved. lol Here's the link: http://www.cbs19.tv/global/story.asp?s=11846643
The skull and sleleton are coon like see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raccoon_skull_Pengo.jpg for an see also http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/anatomical_images/raccoon_skeleton.jpg
however the size indicates (unless your daughters are alot bigger than last I saw them )that it is either a young raccoon or a skunk as the skeletons are quite similar. seehttp://www.museumofosteology.org/images/hooded-skunk-lg.jpg. Both are very common around here although I rather run across a racoon. Russ London
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From what I can make out of the skull, raccoon. But I can't embiggen your photos, and my eyes aren't what they once were.
Chupacabra
Awesome! How did your wife feel about such a find??
Matt, if you're on Facebook, check out the "You know you're a redneck falconer when" group, especially Niki Peretta's posts. She's got some great things about what falconers' kids learn ;)
Great photo. Save it for blackmail purposes later.
Hello,
I am most curious about your dogs. Do you have website with more pictures of them? What are their pedigrees? They look like COO Salukis, am I right?
I would be most thankful for your answer.
viktoria[dot]guwallius[at]gmail[dot]com
Here is a picture of a raccoon skeleton, clean, for comparison:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/anatomical_images/raccoon_skeleton.jpg
Raccoon seems to be a reasonable identification, but it's a little bit small. Do you have ring-tails or cacomistles or anything like that out East? If not, I would hazard that it's a small raccoon.
They have much longer leg bones than I would have thought just looking at the living animals.
I tend toward raccoon-- maybe ask Darren?
Darren suspects raccoon also (although sloth and chupacabra are both strong contenders at this point).
It is definitely a squirrel, rabbit or a small dinosaur.
Oppossum? They are toothy creatures.
Annie in VA
Bigfoot, clearly. (but seriously, Dave might know. I'll send him a link.)
We needed you yesterday, when Zach wanted to bring a dead bird home that we found while waiting for the MLK march to start. I just wasn't equipped . . .
Dave's guess: "Not a rodent, too long a skull for a cat. Possum I’d say, or perhaps a mustelid of some sort (weasel or skunk)."
Here's an opossum skull for comparison:
http://aardvarks.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/opossum_skull.jpg
The opossum's skull is nearly flat on top, and it has some strange, snaggly looking (premolars?) right behind the (canines?).
Rodents and rabbits have a big gap in their tooth rows right behind the incisors (diastema), so it's surely not one of those.
Upon close inspection, there appear to be long, straight bones near the spine. Probably wing elements. This is either a raccoon or a juvenile sphinx.
I've never seen one (dead) - but maybe armadillo?
Damn. It's my Avatar.
Annie in VA
I haven't seen a live armadillo, sadly, in years! I'm thinking skunk although after last nights news cast it COULD be a Chupacabra. They just found one here in East Texas! Mystery solved. lol Here's the link: http://www.cbs19.tv/global/story.asp?s=11846643
Iguana?
The skull and sleleton are coon like see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raccoon_skull_Pengo.jpg for an see also http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/anatomical_images/raccoon_skeleton.jpg
however the size indicates (unless your daughters are alot bigger than last I saw them )that it is either a young raccoon or a skunk as the skeletons are quite similar.
seehttp://www.museumofosteology.org/images/hooded-skunk-lg.jpg. Both are very common around here although I rather run across a racoon.
Russ London
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