Vulture Culture Sideblog

Replying from @trashqueenn

[iraffiruse]

Frozach Submitted

[followthebluebell]

Source: How Much Do Cats Actually Kill?

I did the math to figure out how many furry forest critters my one hunter cat actually killed. Here are the numbers:

She’s 10 years old, but she’s spent the last year as an inside only cat, so let’s mark her down as 9 years old. As an indoor-outdoor cat, she averaged around 4 kills a week. According to this study, she was probably killing 16 per week. At least.

There are 52 weeks in a year, so my cat was killing around 832 moles, voles, rats, and mice per year.

At 9 years old, her kill count was most likely around 7,488.

I’m lucky that she only went after rodents and not endangered animals. With a kill rate like that, this one cat could’ve wiped out an entire species.

And that’s just one cat.

[pacificremains]

Opossum shelf opossum shelf

[pacificremains]

Bearded dragon skeleton, cleaned using oxidation. A jaunty fellow!

[beardless-bearded-vulture]

Ough... beaste...

[skulllesbian]

just remembered they had both a thylacine mount AND skeleton in the museum in darmstadt so i needed to show you all!

[viverridae]

🖤💀🐈‍⬛

(1999-2021)

[blackbackedjackal]

Lurcher, Saluki, Borzoi, Pharaoh Hound, Greyhound, & Whippet

[possumest]

[peachyvulture]

Coyote skull and jawbones 🖤

[peachyvulture]

Shorebird(?) and some sort of ammonite shell from yesterday

[vulturegroove]

Reminder that the majority of bird remains are illegal to keep in the USA, including the bones, feathers, eggs and nests of many species! They’re protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).

you can check here to see a list of birds protected by the MBTA

here are birds NOT on the MBTA

You should also check local laws, the MBTA is federal (applies to every state), but each state and county can have other laws in addition to the MBTA.

[pacificremains]

Rattlesnake skull. Small but full of ouch.

[pacificremains]

Natural death kit.ten skeleton, cleaned by oxidation. She's off to her new home!

[intriga-hounds]

visiting my parents in NV, so i hit up my favorite oddities booth.

[feral-babe]

[seabeck]

Your skulls are so cool! What's your favorite one you've found?

Aw man tumblr are my answer but it’s my horse skull!

My friend found it while biking in the area, because he had a bike it was a day hike but for me it had to be a backpacking trip. I think it came out to 16 miles round trip and half of it was with a heavy stinky horse skull in my pack. He’s an older fellow with all the teeth he died with (which is to say not all of them - his dental hygiene was not good). I went back a year later for the hooves but it was all gone 🙀

[moramaisis]

All of my d.og skulls. The biggest one is the model here. D.og skulls are one of my favorites because how different they can be!