#animal id

[answrs]

So Grandpa (from up in upstate New York) sent me a box with a mystery tooth he found in his garden recently, asking if I could identify it. Definitely an herbivore tooth and a large one at that, just from first glance. Luckily I have three likely culprits right in my collection, and I was quite interested to see which one fit!

Now first look the tooth definitely read “deer” to me, but the largest thing they’ve ever seen in the neighborhood are the occasional whitetail, which, well, I *did* say this tooth was pretty dang large, right?

...yeah.

anyway, the town itself is pretty rural, but considering the farmland around and most common usage of skull for decor in the average home, I figured to first check it against a cow:

Now the size definitely fits, and in the photos it might look like the pattern of growth on the underside view matches pretty closely. However, the cow’s teeth are very consistently ground flat and smooth, as well as being thicker in general, so I crossed it off the list. Where the unknown tooth makes a sort of V-shape from the outer sides to the center, the cow is more a solid whorl.

There’s a lot of horse pastures just down the road, so might as well check against one of those too. Once again, the size fits okay but these molars are even flatter than the cow, and are even less of a fit to the tooth.

So back to deer we go, with an elk this time! The ridges and shearing edges definitely are much more comparable, and obviously the size fits as well. (This particular skull is a female elk - a cow - which is roughly 1-2in larger than the cow - regular bovine, aka the “moo” kind - I used to compare to above. Not a perfect match, but of what I have in my collection, seems the closest fit by a mile.

So that’s it then, somewhere along the line an elk (or skull at least) popped up in their yard, and all that remains is a tooth, case closed? Well, one small problem...

Elk do *not* live in NY at all, let alone where GM&GP live right now. Which certainly throws a wrench into things, but! There is another large ungulate that is closely related that *does* live in the area, if rare....

Moose!

Now unfortunately I don’t have an actual skull to compare the tooth to one, but based on the available evidence that is what I’m currently settled on for a species.

(I am ABSOLUTELY here for other people to chime in with thoughts about this, especially since I cannot confirm my assumption through irl comparison, and it isn’t an exact fit to the elk either.)

#vulture culture #vultureculture #bone identification #animal ID #animal skull

[kvetch19]

#animals #animal identification #animal id #reddit

[charleyharperid]

Cooper's hawk?

Northern Leopard Frog?

Snowy Egret

Assassin Snail

Green Anole

Coral ID is beyond me.

Queen Trigger Fish

Common Octopus?

Deer Mouse

Common Tern

Brittle Star (maybe O. wendtii)

Brain Coral (I guess coral ID isn't entirely beyond me)

Spotlight Parrotfish

Roseate spoonbill

Brown Pelican

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Whitetail Deer

Tropical Blue Wave

West Indian Manatee

Longsnout Seahorse

Bald Eagle

Atlantic Deep-sea Red Crab

Mangrove Cuckoo

Queen Angelfish

Great Black-backed Gull?

Everglades Rat Snake?

Magnificent Frigatebird

Green Turtle or Hawskbill Turtle

American Crocodile

Conch (maybe Queen Conch?)

#charley harper #wildlife wonders #animal id #thank you to my work colleague who grew up diving for the fish IDs #I am not good at fish #species id

[mirtapersonal]

Podarcis muralis? (or possibly Iberolacerta horvathi) ??

Rijeka, 2020

#rijeka #photo #podarcis muralis #reptile #lizard #reptile id #animal id

[megangarbage]

found some sort of dog-rat

#dograt #dog-rat #creatures #animal id #what is this thing

[nitr09-productions]

The Seek animal/plant ID app seems to think my cat is a skunk. How do I delete this from my observations tab?

(He is stinky, but he isn't a skunk.)

#seek #seek app #animal id #cat #dillon

[fearthefuzzybear]

oh uh. scuse me. just a lil snail crossing your dash

#snail #pixel art #artists on tumblr #animated gif #fuzzysprites #image id in alt text #bugs

[arunneronthird]

#id say im projecting but im not sure im not drawing anime #made myself laugh with the face so i think it works #dick grayson #damian wayne #nightwing #dc comics #batman #my art #ladies. gentleman. you have eaten well. #tumblr fucked up the whole res so click on it thank u

[the-exciting-breeding-journal]

This has to be a young-ish male house Sparrow right ???? Out of all the birds we have here, and considering the beak and the plumage, that's the only thing I can think of... But he sure looks pale, doesn't he :0

He also has the little white dot behind his eye (not pictured, too man branches) so I'm influences by that too :0

Also there were a lot of tree sparrows around and those lil guys kept getting spooked by everything, so getting any pictures of... Anything... Was super hard :0 and I'm 100% certain those are tree sparrows :3

#ornithology #bird identification #bird id #animal identification #animal id #birdblr #birdwatching

[autumn-may]

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

#The boy and the heron #how do you live #studio ghibli #ghibli #in all honesty that movie was legitimately so fantastic and im like changed as a person #Story wise as well! It hits really hard if you know a bit about miyazaki and his legacy. Its a very personal movie i think #And you can feel it in every aspect #The eng dub voice actors were really good as well and the animation was beautiful as always #Also really loved the tone!!! The story really relied a bit on the use of negative space in both sound and pacing and i enjoyed that alot #in conclusion go read a article about miyazaki and his son and then go watch the movie it’s probably going to be one of my favorites #image id in alt

[machinerot]

alright i couldn't find any posts showing this idle animation and needed it on my blog

#on my hands and knees thanking whoever animated this #the first time i came across it id left to get a snack #and when i came back and saw them doing this i did such a violent double take i nearly gave myself whiplash #LOOK AT THEM ‼️ #engaging in tomfoolery together.... #tears in my eyes #disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #just sat silently beside my computer for nearly twenty minutes to get this recording. worth it

[troutpaws]

the flesh will persist (graphite & digital, 2023)

print

#salmon #zombie salmon #freshwater fish #nature #graphite #traditional art #my art #animal death #id in alt text #been thinking a lot about how salmon can start to decompose while they are still alive

[talos-stims]

photographybyhenrik on ig | source

#talos gifs #stim gifs #stim #nature stim #nature #hands free #irl animals #birds #bird stim #bird photography #raven #feathers #black #black stim #gif ids #id in alt

[bad-puns-n-finger-guns]

@meme-meupthotty i read your tags like timmy and tommy dialogue i hope you know that

#beware the ides of march #ides of march #animal crossing #acnh #timmy nook #tommy nook #timmy and tommy #happy knife day

[asterwild]

PENGUINS. all of them!

(not precisely to scale, but close)

#most species have a range of several inches and i was just eyeballin it #re: little vs fairy #wikipedia has them divided into two species (aus vs nz i think) #if this hadn't been so hastily put together i wouldnt have based it solely on wikipedia #and probably would've actually gone with the global penguin society who lists them as one #i'm no expert and have no idea what sort of taxonomical debates are going on & whether this is a hotly contested issue #but i did switch to just one when i updated this for prints and such #penguins #animals #animal art #birds #id in alt #all the things