A quick and easy Mystery Dissection post for you today– these objects are left over from a dissection we did awhile ago. What are they, and (for extra points) from what species (be as precise as possible)?
Speed round. Let’s see how many correct answers we can get in the next 24 hours!
Stomach-Churning Factor: 1. They won’t bite.
Difficulty: small image, oblique angle, object on the left side of the image is in the way (and not related to this post).
This will lead into a full-length blog post, hopefully to come sometime late this week, after Halloween. And there should be a Halloween bonus post this year!
Go for it!
What's In John's Freezer? 
left scapula, humerus, radius&ulna, femur and tibia. Guess a rhino. no clue as to the kind 🙂
White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) mainly due to there being a lot of white Rhino in parks and zoo and freezers in the UK.
I think I see a 3rd trochanter, which you mentioned was diagnostic of rhinos.
top scapula
L-R Humerus, Radius and Ulna, femur and tibia.
Haha, I was thinking of rhino also but now it looks like I’m copying. 😛
OK this ends our speed round of Mystery Dissection 10- I did say 24 hours and that has passed! Well, as I expected it was *too easy*, but I gotta throw you a bone now and then, or six bones…
It is indeed a White rhinoceros, for the reasons RH noted above, plus size and robusticity. While other mammals have a 3rd trochanter, no other large mammal has one so large as in rhinos. All three of you got it right, so yay!
Soon to come: a scoreboard for top Mystery Dissection/CT Slice participants.
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