Ok, the game is up - let's all just pretend that that ugly little paca episode never happened (it has been consigned to 'below the fold': view at your peril). Just so you feel you're getting your money's worth, here's another picture, but not one where you're supposed to guess what it is, as of course you don't need to. It is the amazing brachiosaurid skull HMN t1, discovered at Tendaguru Hill, described by Janensch in the 1920s and 30s, and displayed today at Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde. HMN t1 is c. 70 cm long, and with a mouth c. 22 cm wide (and it is not small for the size of the animal). Although a cast of it is placed atop the famous mounted skeleton HMN SII, it did not belong to this skeleton, and the real skull of HMN SII would have been somewhat bigger. Photo © D. Hone, all rights reserved.
Sorry sorry sorry - still no time for a proper post yet, too much other crap to do. Given that baboon skulls and frogmouth feathers seemed rather easy, let's see who can get this. This time you have to get it to species. There will be some that know, but I'm hoping that it will not be too easy for the rest of you. To the victor, the spoils.
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Looks a bit like an agouti to me. Exact species? No idea.
A macropod of some description? Pademelon? Wallaby? Tree Kangaroo?
The Paca--Agouti (=Cuniculus) paca. Can't miss the expanded zygomatic arches.
Clearly some sort of South American rodent. First guess, paca (Agouti paca). Second guess, some kind of agouti (Dasyprocta sp.).
When I first saw the photo of this animal, I thought it would be easy to identify. I was wrong. I'm sure that others will be less kerfuffled then I am. I'm going to say it's one of those mine-sniffing giant rats. Gambian pouched rat, cricetomys gambianus. I only think this because it's nose looks sort of rodenty to me. I'm probably way off though.
I'm going to guess it's the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox).
I found this fairly difficult, and this was not my first guess. Originally I thought it might be a chevrotain, duiker, dik-dik, agouti or acouchy, but after doing some Google image seaches I saw that the large deerlike eyes of those animals were all wrong.
Then it occured to me that the eye looked just like the distinctive eyes of the fossa. The coloring and the nose also seemed to fit. However, the head seems a little too elongated, the nasal area too convex instead of concave, and the eyes not quite binocular enough, for me to be 100% comfortable with my guess. But it's the best I can come up with. Fossa it is.
Okay... I either want to call this a Muntiacus putaoensis (Leaf Muntjac) or a Tragulus javanicus (Lesser Mouse Deer).
I think it is paca (genus Cuniculus).
Pudu pudu?
Rodent. Most probably Agouti paca.
A paca, or an agouti, perchance?
Cuniculus paca, the lowland paca. See here: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/mzm2/82.mr2.jpg/vi…
This is definitely a Gorgonopsian, possibly Inostrancevia uralensis. I know this because I research these animals very much.
Darn, If only the ears were visible...
Pademelon would be my guess.
Wish I could see its skull instead but anyways, there are 3 basic categories of possibilities I see when looking at that picture.
1. Your little ungulates like mouse deer, dik-dik etc...
2. Your little wallaby types.
3. Your big South American Rodent type.
I'll go with 3, as in the Big S. American rodent because the nose seems a bit too large for the other categories...
The very same photo! Well, it was educational...
maybe a Myoprocta dwarf agouti?
I don't care if we're not supposed to guess about brachiosaurs because I stubbornly did and was very proud of myself! We're not all experts on everything (or anything!) - I must beg you to occasionally throw a few easier ones in just for us lowly people. :)
What is "Primeval" and can I get it in Canada?