Tracking CSI...Mystery Skeleton....(warning..piccs of dead stuff)

[British Red]

Okay..got some inteest with the last tracking shots.....

Thought someone might be interested to try to name this porr unfortunate creature (or at least what remains of it)

Its near a foxes earth if that helps at all............

Red

 

[sandbender]

Is it a squirrel?

 

[British Red]

Which bit of one would be the question here.....?

I reckon you are right though

Pelvis, femurs and tail I think. Took me a moment to orient it properly...I was thinking spine not tail to stat with!

I'll bung some more tomorrow

 

[BigShot]

Which bit?
Pelvis, Femur and Tail.

What species?
Can't say - not seen inside enough animals to have an even vague idea.

I'd be inclined to guess something small so probably a squirrel as suggested by SB.

 

[sandbender]

Which bit of one would be the question here.....?

I reckon you are right though

Pelvis, femurs and tail I think...

I was thinking spine myself, the tail bones would probably shrink in size towards the end whereas the spine has hold the weight of the head and hold the spinal column. However when I look at the orientation of the pelvis I think it probably is the tail.

 

[BigShot]

The orientation of the pelvis is what made me think it could be the tail too.
Interesting stuff, if a little morbid.

 

[Bushwhacker]

I'd say squirrel, but that's the spine not the tail,
The tail would resemble something like macaroni threaded on a string.

 

[Spaniel man]

I have to say, it looks more like an bird, hard to say which bird, but the pelvis looks distinctly avian. The pelvis on a squirrel is tiny.

 

[pheasant plucker]

How big was it Red? Bit difficult to judge and I can't quite make my mind up what it could be???

PP

 

[Greg]

It's definately a spine, its hard to tell from the picture but the femur look too long for a squirel. Are the bones hollow if so it would be avian for definate.

 

[Spaniel man]

Did a bit of googling!
Came up with......
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...leton&hl=en&lr=&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUK313&sa=N&um=1


http://www.krassesrudel.at/forumbilder/thecoop/figure3.gif

 

[Bushwhacker]

Could be Pheasant I suppose.

 

[Treemonk]

I would agree with spaniel man that it is a bird of some sort.

I don't think it is a tail as there is not the correct taper and you can also see the remnents of the ribs.

I would hazard a guess at pheasant as most likely

 

[pheasant plucker]

Nice find Spaniel, looks to be avian then. I just hope it was'nt a pheasant lmao

PP

 

[bear knights]

also agree that its a bird and thats its the spine you're looking at. Not a chicken as got one of those rotting on my desk in front of me, but pheasant seems logical choice.

 

[bikething]

...Not a chicken as got one of those rotting on my desk in front of me,..

I do worry about you sometimes.....

 

[British Red]

By way of illustration this might help.....

I'm sure its not a chicken ....but....

 

[Wink]

It looked a bit like a cat at first, but the ribs are in the wrong place! So I vote pheasant.

http://www.birdtaxidermist.com/images/Pheasant-Skeleton.jpg

 

[mr dazzler]

swan, goose??

 

[Melonfish]

i was about to say the orientation of the pelvis, the location of the ribs and the long vertibrae all scream bird to me.
poss a pheasant or partridge