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recent unfortunate finds, two separate baby rats. outdoor cats suck :/ but the video, he must've been there for a few hours cos that beetle was eating his tongue

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free wood pigeon :) lucky for me he ended up in the bike lane and not a foot to the left over the paint line marking for the cars. otherwise for sure it would've been flattened immediately

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mummified baby bird anyone?

shockingly no bones are broken, i think I'll salt dry this bad boy then display him dry in a jar :)

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found a mouse, it's totally definitely 100% not in my bag right now

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A small house mouse skeleton, prepared for a friend via the oxidation method (nfs)

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ironic place to find a dead pigeon; vet parking lot.

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I want to show you the process I took the past few days to process this hedgehog, it was great to finally be able to work on it I was very curious to know what it would be like

A friend gave it to me, the same one who gave me a skinned coachwhip snake and a chinchilla puppy

First I have to say that I didn't have gloves as I forgot to buy them and I didn't want to get my hands on this one like I usually would, I don't know salmonella and spikes, so in the whole process I only used metal serrated tweezers and the scalpel

I started by cutting the skin between the lips and gums peeling back, with an incision through the chin through the neck down the chest and abdomen and finally through the arms and legs.

In the end after pushing and cutting here and there the skin finally gave way

I froze the skin since it had a lot of attached tissue and I was already a bit annoyed with the length of the process so I didn't want to work on it now

Then, of course, the only thing left to do was extract the organs, from which I extracted and preserved the testicles, the kidneys and the heart, the latter for a project that I have in hand

Here I had finally finished removing everything I didn't want with my dermestid, organs, abdominal wall, fat and after giving it a good bath to remove blood and fur that adhered to the meat

And in the end, that's how it ended, from being a fresh and shiny carcass to this skinless mummy after spending a night in the constant wind of a fan that I use to dry specimens

It will go directly to the dermestary and hopefully there will be good results, as usual

Despite the length of the process it was very pleasant to work with this odd animal... ye they are so weird

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after degreasing!!!!!

rat skull? rat skull.

almost perfect, except the part under my index finger in the second image is breaking off.

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too stinky for proper pictures but here's the fresh rat, definitely not even an adult and i think female.

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rat skull? rat skull.

almost perfect, except the part under my index finger in the second image is breaking off.

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the rest of the bones are soaking now but also here's the current state of the paws and nose of Fig (name of possum found on tracks near-completely mummified and since I was visiting friends they gave me one of their jars to transport which was labeled 'fig' with a date for the last thing that was in there). Still a work in progress but I'm glad I have some amazing parts from her instead of them being dumped on rails forever 🥰

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SOMETHING STOLE MY FUCKING BIRD IT JUST LEFT THE FEET 😭

found a small dead bird with a broken neck. not quite sure what it is

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unfortunately the skin started peeling off one of the feet (bottom picture) during the salting process but besides that im happy

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unfortunately the skin started peeling off one of the feet (bottom picture) during the salting process but besides that im happy

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nature is still happening in a plastic bag

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found a small dead bird with a broken neck. not quite sure what it is

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