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Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8021395
12/15/23 11:25 AM
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Unusual collection. Gorgeous table. Thanks for the post!


Must be nice to eat ice cream as fast as you want and not have to worry about brain freeze.
Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: DaveP] #8021411
12/15/23 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by DaveP
Originally Posted by EdP
WOW, that table is spectacular.



Yup!

Anyone ever been to the The Icelandic Phallological Museum?


I walked past their door this past June but figured it was some sort of weird freak show and didn't go in.


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Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: newhouse114] #8021412
12/15/23 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by newhouse114
Do you have any spotted skunk in your collection? I had one from a least weasel at one time. Got misplaced never to be seen again.


Yes on the western spotted skunk. No on the eastern. You got me beat on the least weasel. All the least weasels I've ever had went to museums (in the round) for study skins and skeletons. I have lots of striped skunks though.

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Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8021442
12/15/23 12:58 PM
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BTW, as an older mammal myself I'm at times a little miffed that we humans weren't issued baculum. Oh well... smirk


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Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8021456
12/15/23 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Gulo
The penis bones (bacula, os penis, oosik) of most mammals are distinctive. They come in all sorts of odd shapes. I've been collecting these oddities for a lifetime. The species that the bacula are from is easily discernable. Additionally, age of the animal is often calculable based on the baculum.

Here are some common ones. American badger, raccoon, and river otter.
[Linked Image]


Here are shown fisher. They have a distinctive head (distal end).
[Linked Image]


Wolverines have a reputation for being mean. I'll argue that point, but they must be tough, as I trapped an older adult that had broke his penis in half sometime earlier in his life, and it had healed itself at quite an angle. OUCH!
[Linked Image]


Often, females will sport a "pseudo-baculum" (os clitoris, baubellum). This is a baubellum from a black bear.
[Linked Image]

My coffee table at home displays a few hundred bacula. Quite a conversation-piece when we have guests.
[Linked Image]

Jack Whitman


Totally spacular!!

Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8021462
12/15/23 01:44 PM
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I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Walrus baculum.
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Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: waggler] #8021463
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Originally Posted by waggler
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Walrus baculum.
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I am the walrus
Coo, coo, ca-choo

Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8021465
12/15/23 01:54 PM
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[Linked Image]
my bro is a ivory carver. recently made this for me. i havent seen them yet but he made a set of walrus pecker chucks that actually quite deadly.


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Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8021468
12/15/23 02:01 PM
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I was in a Tractor Supply store a few years back. Standing in line to pay I noticed the guy behind me had a necklace with a couple raccoon bacula on it. I complemented the guy. The young cashier girl heard me and asked if it was real/true as the guy who had them must have told her previously. I told her they are real. She obviously didn't believe the guy and with me telling her , she was a bit shocked. But now she knew the truth.


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Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Sharon] #8021473
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Originally Posted by Sharon
Okaaaaaay, I don’t have any pictures to go with this subject…..nice table, Jack blush


I saw Jack's pictures and that's the first thing I thought of. Wonder if Sharon has a drawing of these? LOL!

Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Osagian] #8021495
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Originally Posted by Osagian
Originally Posted by Sharon
Okaaaaaay, I don’t have any pictures to go with this subject…..nice table, Jack blush


I saw Jack's pictures and that's the first thing I thought of. Wonder if Sharon has a drawing of these? LOL!




grin I doubt Ill evah be commissioned to even a whisper of that thought..... on the other hand....I'm just glad humans are so delightfully different....

Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8021526
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I have seen ones that the ice flow broke and there was a walrus oweeee as he was getting up on the flow and later in life it hardened much like Jack's 3rd down picture

Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8021534
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Got this one last season from a young raccoon. Pains me everytime I look at it..
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Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8022045
12/16/23 08:36 AM
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Thanks for all the comments and contributions. Newhouse 114, those 'hawks are about the neatest thing I've seen in a long time. I used to have about a dozen oosiks, but gave 'em away. Now have but one. If I had more, I'd carve some ax handles. Perfect idea!

Jack


Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8025098
12/19/23 03:37 PM
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Gulo, what is the proper term for the “penal plug” that I see where the castors are connected to the cloaca?

And having asked that what do you make of this apparatus that was in the same position (more or less) out of a female beaver?
[Linked Image]


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Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8025281
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Momma wolverine might walk funny after that crooked one!

Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: Gulo] #8025783
12/20/23 09:39 AM
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Gulo As usual every time you post about something you almost always have one picture or comment on your subject that completely hits it out of the ballpark The range of information and the pictures to verify what you are posting about is amazing The picture of the table you have to display the various examples is incredible The table it self is a thing of beauty And of course the items on display make it completely awesome Thanks for sharing your scientific collection of bacula

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Re: Photo Phriday 114 - Bacula [Re: BvrRetriever] #8025790
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Originally Posted by BvrRetriever
Momma wolverine might walk funny after that crooked one!

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