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Articulation Guide: Spine and Tail

The spine is a great place to start when it comes to mapping out and labeling a skeleton. It’s the backbone, after all!

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Articulation Guide Directory

Though there will be links to the other parts on each guide, this will list all of them in order in case you don’t wanna go searching!

1. Spine and Tail

2. Ribs

3. Forelimb

4. Hind-limb and Pelvis

5. Carpals and Metacarpals

6. Tarsals and Metatarsals

7. Phalanges

8. Miscellaneous Bones

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shadyufo

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! <3

todaysbird

leucistic crow... HE HAS FRECKLES!!!

lofeel

@funeral-march’s archive

peroxidebutch

We skinned our first s.nake today! She is a lovely cott.onmouth that we will be diaphonizing

maeve-an-bhanchainti

a handy guide a friend sent me when I asked to identify a hawk talon I had acquired

grubarchived

thinking about whale falls

(inspired by the work of @catadromously )

politijohn

Yes, this is really a thing…

solitarelee

Yep, because baby formula is one of the most shoplifted things in America. Which should ALSO radicalize you.

girtheemoninja

Or… We stop shoplifting? 🤔 Are we demonizing acts to stop crimes now?

demonius-darkblade

ill tear your head off your shoulders you dumb fuck

jana-the-clown

I’m all for radicalization like the government and society are fucked. But they put baby formula in locked cases because it is used to make meth. The store does this to keep an eye out if someone is buying way too much. Like waaaaay too much.

40ouncesandamule

No. They lock it up because hungry babies need it and there is a thriving market for stealing baby formula because people will pay good money to guarantee their babies don’t starve.

You can’t make meth out of baby formula. You can stretch some drugs by cutting it with baby formula but “Drug dealers sometimes use the powdered formula to dilute heroin and methamphetamine or to stretch the product when supplies run low. However, experts say that more often than not, formula is stolen because of its high market demand among consumers rather than drug dealers.”

This is what imperialism and capitalism and the “war on drugs” does to people’s brains. You can see that people are so desperate to feed their babies that the people who rule your lives keep baby formula under lock and key but rather than that radicalizing you and making you want to fight for a world where no baby ever goes hungry, you justify this draconian bullshit because you’ve fallen for the propaganda that baby formula is used in some nebulous relation to “drugs” and drugs are bad so whatever inhuman monstrosity that occurs must be justifiable.

blackbackedjackal

some rando: did you kill that animal just for its fur or skull?

me:

volossiae

take nothing but pictures

leave nothing except the roadkill you can’t take home because it’s protected by the MBTA

featherling

Birds that you can legally use and collect the parts from in the US: -Domestic birds like chickens, domestic ducks, and domestic geese -Birds killed during their hunting seasons (pheasants, snipe, duck) -Invasive, non-native species that US Fish and Wildlife Services HATE (European starlings and house sparrows. These birds actually threaten our native birds by taking their nests. You could kill European starlings all day and USFW would thank you) -Any other invasive and aggressive species. You can check articles and laws every now and then and you might find out about a new bird that’s legal. For example, the mute swan is a very aggressive bird that threatens trumpeter swans. They have been recently legal to kill and own parts of. -exotic pet birds, like zebra finches, budgies, conures and other parrots. -Any bird not endangered, migratory, or native.

And capturing and euthanizing invasive species is not only legal, but actually GOOD for the environment because European starlings and house sparrows are pests that take over the niches of our native birds.

blackbackedjackal

Could you explain a little how to reshape a face on a pelt?

Of course! There’s different ways to go about it, but this is my method:

First step is to test the leather. I either cut off a small piece of the face or drip a little water on it, and let it sink in for a moment. I tug at the wet spot to see if the leather rips easily. If so, the leather’s not good for rehydration. This is usually the case for older pelts, but newer ones will generally be fine.

Once I know the leather is safe to rehydrate, I’ll submerge the face into a tub warm water. However, though the leather may be fine, there’s still a chance of the fur start slipping (falling out). A little fur loss is normal, but if it’s extensive best to stop reshaping and leave the face as is.

The time I allow faces to sit varies. I’ve had faces rehydrate fully in as little as 20 minutes and as long as 9 hours. Reason being, I like to make sure the nose and ears are soft, and they’ll take longer to rehydrate then the face of the animal. An hour or two should be sufficient enough, just make sure to check up on the project every so often to make sure the leather’s fine and the fur isn’t slipping.

Once it’s saturated, I wring it out it, scrape out any unwanted material, and set it up to dry. The best thing you can have to dry a face on is a taxidermy head form, but stuffing it with of towels and such works just as well! To keep the ears propped up, I’ll cut off triangular pieces of cardboard and pin them to the ears.

After about 2 days of drying the face is reshaped.