Vulture Culture - Dead Things Enthusiasts Unite!

[Autumnlp99]

I have a few things, mostly just old turtle shells.
Since I own tarantulas, I find that turtle shells make great hides and tank decorations [Of course after being carefully cleaned.]
I also collect shark teeth and other sea creature parts, some of my favorites are my three meglodon shark teeth and my stingray teeth.

[mngwa]

Roiffalo - Glad you found this thread! I owe Oddi a lot for making the buttons for this thread. Your collection is nice! I'd say that skull is a raccoon; badgers have wider skulls. I'd say the bird is a parakeet? but I'm not terrific at bird skull identification. You're making me drool with the moose antlers.... I haven't got any of those, and I dearly want one.

Jay - Oooh, nice! I've got a really big bobcat skull that got from my parents a couple of christmases ago.

サタン。 (do you have an english name you want me to call you?) - Oh, cool! I own many, many hissing cockroaches, though I'm afraid to put any bones or the like in their tanks because they'll chew it apart for calcium, no matter what you feed them Ooh, I'd love to see a picture of your stingray teeth!

[lightscales]

↠ [ some photos of my collection from the
shoot i did tonight! the chocolate rabbit pelt
didnt show up too well, but oh well. ]

[mngwa]

Very nice, Jay! Lovely angles on that coyote skull. (I'm all jealous of that mouse pelt, ha!)
Again, I'll warn everyone in the thread - be careful about bird feathers (or at least what you show online).
Also, Jay, a good piece of advice from a photo teacher of mine - natural light is always better. Also the magic hour is usually about 5 AM and 5 PM, and you get some awesome shots with the setting sun's light.

[rabbithaver]

those are some magnificent shots, Jay! do you take photography classes? :0

[Roiffalo]

Roiffalo - Glad you found this thread! I owe Oddi a lot for making the buttons for this thread. Your collection is nice! I'd say that skull is a raccoon; badgers have wider skulls. I'd say the bird is a parakeet? but I'm not terrific at bird skull identification. You're making me drool with the moose antlers.... I haven't got any of those, and I dearly want one.

Which reminds me I should add a button to my sig. Even if the rest doesn't match at the moment thanks to the holidays.

Thank you! I don't think the bird would be a parakeet as I found it outside and aren't parakeets normally only kept as pets?

The moose antlers I got thanks to my dad who got them while in Maine when he was in the Air Force. They were grey with all the dust on them from being in my grandmother's attic for years, but I got them nice and clean and they're brown again, however they're stashed in the back of my car. I'd really like a set of elk antlers. I have uncles who hunt and plenty of resources in the area so it could happen someday.

I hope to have a room or at least a shed in the backyard for my collection so I can display everything and not have them all in cluttered and covered masses around the house. Mother isn't really fond of my collection so I have to keep it out of site. I have some things displayed in my room though since she's never in here.

[Autumnlp99]

Got some pictures of a few new pieces I got, plus some of my favorites.

Here's a few of my stingray teeth, I have some better/less broken ones but they're currently in storage.

Here's a cute little jar with some shark teeth and other aquatic animals, I dried the crayfish myself.

My favorite shark tooth.

And last but not least one of my crab claws.


Sorry for the crappy quality, my good camera is broken so I'm using my computers camera.

[yikes]

Hey pals i'm back with some new bones! I found these at a thrift store in a dusty cardboard box. all the ones on the left are all lower jaws, a couple of them are from fish (possibly salmon?) and the ones on the right I've been seeking help to identify! I'm pretty sure the bottom right one is a shoulder. The top right might just be a sharpened bone it doesn't look familiar to me :0

[salem.]

hiya!!

I'm so glad I found this thread c:

so far my collection includes a mallard skull, mink skull, red fox skull, magpie skull, horse skull [biggest piece I own, he's huge], red deer hide, vintage badger head mount, deer legs, a stuffed duckling, and a silver fox tail.

[mngwa]

Roiffalo - Thanks for spreading the word for this thread! I'm afraid I'm a bit bad at keeping up with CS, so I really appreciate it!

Ah, true. I haven't the foggiest then.... as I said, I'm bad at bird skull identification.

Very nice! I have a few things like that that I'm waiting on, including a pre-CITES polar bear skull. Ah, attics - truly the best source of dead things. And yea, I get you there - elk antlers are magnificent! The largest set I ever saw was about 6 feet long for each antler, and 4 or 5 feet across. I've got a shed one of my own that I got at a flea market, and it lives on top of my bookshelf because it's huge.

Yea, I understand that. I keep my collection in my room, but between that, my books, my hisser tanks, and my bed, it's a wee bit crowded in there! I'm hoping to move in with friends that'll let me spread out a bit, so I'll hopefully be able to solve that problem soon.

サタン。 - Very nice! I've got very little in the way of aquatic specimens because of where I live, so I always love seeing them! I love the cute little crab claw. No worries on the camera, I totally get it - glamour shots of my collection happen once in a blue moon, and the rest of the time it's phone camera.

yikes - Glad you're back! I can't be of much help here, but I'll try! The left has 2 raccoon jaws and a deer jaw, the bottom right is definitely a left scapula (shoulder bone) maybe from a deer? But scapula are always really hard to ID because they basically all look the same.