Vulture Culture Blog

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Mallard that a duck hunter shot and didn’t collect. Bird was left where found and was handled with care (as in I used my shoe to move it around) Stunning feathers

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Groundhog skull

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Always love seeing these big weirdos

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Well, I love vultures and I love opossums but uh-

[hmtaxidermy]

Got this lil guy done today <3

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Got some concerned comments on my last post about him thinking he was alive, which is an incredible compliment, but I’m sorry it came at the cost of giving some of y’all heart attacks!

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What I think is possible a juvenile coyote or something similar. Pretty small, had teeth coming in, and very round. Not the greatest with canine skulls

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Here's your yearly reminder NOT to purchase bat taxidermy products.

Because of their size, bats are notoriously difficult to find deceased from natural causes, and by the time they are found, the bodies have often already decomposed beyond value.

As sad as it is, it's true — As holidays approach, I know many people with an interest in these critters have the potential to receive gifts that are very unethical for the creatures they care about. Bats are killed for the sole purpose of displays like this as a soulless cash grab. Already, there are dozens of bat species that are threatened or endangered. It is not fair to them to support an industry that is actively trying to extinguish their life for decoration.

You can read more about this crisis here and here.

Photo provided by Denley Photography on Unsplash.

Reblogs on this post are encouraged.

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Whoever said I was shadowbanned and that’s why I couldn’t reply to comments:

you were completely correct thank you

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Button buck skull in cleaning. This is the guy I took the teeth from awhile ago. Hoping this will be my fully complete button buck skull

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Normally wouldn’t keep a skull this damaged but look at those teeth. Old doe

[skeleton-deer]

Incase you ever wanted an adorable fact about the cutest little tiny bird that is the black capped chickadee:

I see them eat flesh every winter..

[lifeinterconnected]

Some pictures of my atypical deadhead. This guy was an old man. Teeth are almost completely worn down. He is one of my favorites in my collection

[answrs]

was about to just throw this at y'all but remembered I kept the dee.r leg with similar fucked-up-edness under a readmore so. since it's more than just a typical skull I'll add a warning:

below cut: a co.w skull with a REALLY fucked up face - lots of bone loss/degredation around the eye but spread to cover nearly the whole side of the face. webbing from the nasal passage is visible, and there is bone growth around the outside. NO BLOOD/MUSCLE IS VISIBLE, ONLY LONG-SINCE CLEANED BONE.

forgot I said I'd post this poor guy (like a year ago rip IT HAPPENED EVENTUALLY OKAY)

some really gnarly stuff going on with this skull. pictures don't do it justice imo, it's a massive growth/loss of bone and at least most of it seems to have happened when the poor thing was still alive - while I won't discount rodent chews or weathering after decomp, lots of the bits and pieces show signs of growth and/or reconstruction that couldn't have happened posthumously. poor guy. 😬

i don't know the story behind him, personally I'm hoping it was a farm escapee situation or something? like I know co.ws can survive a lot more than you expect but hopefully no one saw this happening and just. left it like that, ya feel? I can't imagine what it must have looked like in life but I can't imagine there wouldn't have been some really nasty signs something was wrong.

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August 2023

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All three of these deer were roadkill that I picked up for work. The 3rd one was injured and had to be euthanized. Meat was not wasted as it fed my family (also some of the skull fed my dogs 🙄)

[pacificremains]

Beautiful old moose with horrible teeth

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Took only the incisors as to not lose them and left everything else till it’s a bit more cleaned up.