And HERE WE GO!!! Again.

[Mr. Dean]

Larger than life.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/DSC4303_Mr_Dean_web.jpg

[bc_buckshot]

Let me guess bored at work again?

[Blair]

Some kind of cat I guess. Does Mr. Dean work at the museum or something? Where does he get all these nice sculls? Just wondering.http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg549/btrenholme/SKULL_zpsc3146200.jpg

[Mr. Dean]

Let me guess bored at work again?

I am working...
In fact, I started at 4am. :razz:

[Mr. Dean]

Some kind of cat I guess. Does Mr. Dean work at the museum or something? Where does he get all these nice sculls? Just wondering.

Yup, it's a cat.

Does anyone know it there's differentiating (wow; that's a big word. :lol: ) bone structures within the skulls our the kitty species?
Or is it just size........?

I have nothing else to compare it to.

[KB90]

It's a Lynx!

[d6dan]

cougar..............

[Spy]

Looks allot like a Leopard !

[Skull Hunter]

Looks like a lynx to me, but I suppose a bobcat skull would be almost identical.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Haven't read this yet but it might be a start.
http://catsg.org/iberianlynx/04_library/4_3_publications/W/Werdelin_1983_Morphological_patterns_in_the_skull_ of_cats.pdf

SSS

[tinhorse]

look like a Bobcat.

[d6dan]

Haven't read this yet but it might be a start.
http://catsg.org/iberianlynx/04_library/4_3_publications/W/Werdelin_1983_Morphological_patterns_in_the_skull_ of_cats.pdf

SSS

That sucks Brent. No pictures...:-?

:mrgreen:

[Stone Sheep Steve]

That sucks Brent. No pictures...:-?

:mrgreen:


Heck, I just fell asleep skimming thru it......................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[d6dan]

Heck, I just fell asleep skimming thru it......................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

That wouldn't suprise me at all...:-D

[Mr. Dean]

Haven't read this yet but it might be a start.
http://catsg.org/iberianlynx/04_library/4_3_publications/W/Werdelin_1983_Morphological_patterns_in_the_skull_ of_cats.pdf

SSS

Phfffft, thanks. :sad:

In order to understand that, I'd need a hard copy to flip back-n-forth through AND a dictionary - Everythings in code!

[Glenny]

ya Bob cat

[bc_buckshot]

I'm gonna say bobcat skull. Sitting here looking at my cougar skull and there is some differences and don't think that one is a cougar. But could be wrong. Sticking with bobcat... By the end of the day Dean announce the cat please..

[Stone Sheep Steve]

I'm guessing domestic shorthair....maybe tortoise shell. Definitely not siamese. Muzzle's not long enough.

[kootenayelkslayer]

Hate to be picky, but pretty sure there's only one way to distinguish between a lynx and a bobcat skull (without taking actual measurements)...and the angle of your picture doesn't show it!

[kootenayelkslayer]

Yup, it's a cat.

Does anyone know it there's differentiating (wow; that's a big word. :lol: ) bone structures within the skulls our the kitty species?
Or is it just size........?

I have nothing else to compare it to.

There is a way to tell between bobcat and lynx, you have to take the lower jaw off to tell though.

[Allen50]

wild bore,, of some kind,, wild pig,, the way the tusk slide together,, my guess,,,,

[Allen50]

the second one is a wild bore of some kind, the firs one cant tell how long the nose is,, but think cat or dog,,,, just guessing thoe,,,

[kootenayelkslayer]

Take the lower jaw off, and sit the skull on a flat surface. If the back of the skull is resting on the auditory bulbs (the two round bulbs just beyond the back of the mouth), it's a lynx. If the skull is resting on the occipital condile (the base of cranium, where the spinal cord enters the skull), then it's a bobcat.

[Bighorn hunter]

I would say the the first is a cougar and the second is a hippo, would love to have a hippo scull for the man cave:)

[huntingmom]

Some kind of cat I guess. Does Mr. Dean work at the museum or something? Where does he get all these nice sculls? Just wondering.http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg549/btrenholme/SKULL_zpsc3146200.jpg


With those wicked teeth...it has to be a HIPPO!!!!

[Mr. Dean]

Take the lower jaw off, and sit the skull on a flat surface. If the back of the skull is resting on the auditory bulbs (the two round bulbs just beyond the back of the mouth), it's a lynx. If the skull is resting on the occipital condile (the base of cranium, where the spinal cord enters the skull), then it's a bobcat.

Awesome...
I've looked and looked but couldn't find that info.

But it's probably buried SOMEWHERE in that paper of triple S's. :lol:


Based of that criteria and that of the person it belongs to,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, we have, in cyber-factuals, a genuine, very decent,,, Bobbers' skull.