Hope you didn’t handle that black and yellow hairy caterpillar, if I’m not mistaken those hairs can give you a nasty rash.
Jim
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Photos of Animals, Fish, Birds & Bugs on a Canoe Trip
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Nah, I know better than that.
Grizzly skull, shore of Franklin Bay near mouth of the Horton River, NWT.
Muskox tracks along the Horton River, NWT.
It's always hard to judge the scale of photos like this but the skull looks smaller than I'd expect. Are they smaller than I think? Was it larger in person? Or was it a juveline?
Alan
Yeah, I usually give something for scale, but.... I believe this was an old female. The skull was smaller than expected, and the molars were well worn. I've handled 500 pound grizzlies, and this was a far cry from that! Maybe 300#?? It's been a long time since I've had to estimate bear weights (for chemical immobilization).
Whalebone.
Please don’t tell the authorities that this was technically a seak*y*king trip.
Please don’t tell the authorities that this was technically a seak*y*king trip.
Was wondering what bone it would be with that sharp point. My guess: the mandible of a baleen whale or a rib.
Yes, the lower mandible was how it was explained to me too.
We came across it on a small island called Muskeget, off the west end of Nantucket.
Muskeget is the southernmost breeding ground for grey seals, making it popular with Great White Sharks. Muskeget also features a unique and endemic species colloquially called the “Muskeget Mouse,” which is a beach vole.
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A moose on the Allagash - took one look and kept on eating.
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