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Fox; A duck, eh? How are you processing it? I'm relatively new to this and never processed anything and only really know about maceration and dermestid beetles. What kind of duck, too?

Yeah, to my knowledge you have to dump the water rather frequently and replace it, since after a while it starts to become more corpse than water... haha. But yeah. I can't wait to see how it goes. I'd love a colony of beetles too, but I don't think my mother would approve, heh.

Never heard of a duck being roadkill, tho! Shame that happened to her. There are some ducks on my college campus that I was friends with last year. I don't know if they're still there, but they were delightful. They're pretty great creatures, weird and disgusting habits aside.

Hah, yeah. I once was keeping a rat that my snake wouldn't eat, hoping that I could keep trying and he'd eventually eat it, but it died before I had the chance. I wanted to macerate it and keep the bones because rat skeletons are awesome, but mom was not at all thrilled. A shame, I think, but I'll always have the chance to do it some other time.

If you can, just go out in the woods and look around. Sometimes you'll find good things, small things that you can just sneak home and give a quick hydrogen peroxide bath to clean them and get rid of the smell.

Kind of gross and graphic, but just walking down the road with my friend once we found a group of vultures swarming something, and when we approached we found it was a dead dog. Unfortunately it had a collar so it had been someone's pet, and from the look of things he'd been hit by a car. It was sad, but we were super excited because this was a huge find and the bugs and the vultures could clean it for us. A few days later we came back and it had dried up pretty considerably because it was Tennessee in July, and while we couldn't take off the head like we wanted, we made off with a rib and a scapula. I don't know what happened to the body after that, since my friend never went back to it and now lives in a different state.

Also in my friend's collection were some bones that I can't remember, a part of a turtle shell, and a rabbit... feeeemur? Might have actually been part of the pelvis but I can't recall exactly. On that day we also retrieved some spicebush swallowtails, we think, that had died from the heat along the road.

Sorry for geeking out on you, hah, I just love this stuff. I can't wait 'til I can start my own collection.

I practically live in the woods. There's probably some rat or mice skeletons around left by the feral cats here. I'll have to go check sometime, though this might be the best time while it's still cool and the snakes are hiding.

I loved the geeking out. Your story was very interesting. I wouldn't mind to read more if you have any.

Once, I had actually found a separated bird's wing, didn't know where the body was, the poor thing. I kept it and hid it for a while, but I don't remember what happened to it. Probably was found and thrown out. The only thing I have now is an intact clam from the lake nearby, but I don't know if that really counts either.

Hah. I have to say, that is a really neat collection, Vee. What kind of bird is that in the first picture? Is that a Green Heron skull? Also, do I spy a bumblebee in the box?

@thelittleraven - YEAH my mom wouldn't like them, either haha.

Yes, it had a broken neck and wing. ;o; they are very pretty~ ehehe
I'll have to take a picture of my collection, too. ouo

EDIT: http://sta.sh/217va7phy9b1 Here it is. :0 biggest skull is a bear.

So many more vultures here than I thought! I'm happy, hehe. It inspires me to see your collections.

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Oh man! Those are super nice. Looks like the one on the left needs a cleaning, but they're a great addition to a collection. Nice find!

Hello. Thank you for your kind words again. Is nice to meet you. I feel like in all games i ever played there is always that feeling when I played too much. Its like energy loss and increasing reluctance to so much as enter an app/game. Same goes with watching and listetning to music. I hope you will find a way out of your slump, if I may call it a slump, if you havent yet. Wishing you all best.

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