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Jon-Richfield says:

How about some details please? Your specimen seems to be days or even weeks dead. The skin is bleached, the features are distorted, and the hair is falling out. The whiskers are quite gone. The teeth and forepaw suggest a digging rodent, such as a pocket gopher, a lemming, or even a mole rat, though the ears are rather large for that one. I can't even see how long the tail is.You don't say where you found it; whether on the shores of a lake, a stream, or a sea, whether in Alaska, Siberia, Africa, South East Asia, South America, the tropics, or the local zoo. How big is it? The size of a mouse, a rat, a rabbit? Well, I hope someone else can spot it off the cuff, but for my part I need a few clues.

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posted on 2010-10-30 14:07:16 | Report abuse


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darwyn4 says:

an orc dog

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posted on 2010-11-01 17:24:03 | Report abuse


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tlemler says:

its a sea otter

 

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posted on 2010-11-01 17:27:49 | Report abuse

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Jon-Richfield says:

Sea otter??? That has merit. I had thought those teeth were rodent incisors, but they could well be paired upper and lower canines. And the muzzle would fit too.  The fur? Not so sure, but it could well be any of several possible mustelids. Fisher? Mink? Freshwater otter?

Any reason you are so specific about sea otter? (There are not many of them round here!  :-)  )

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posted on 2010-11-01 18:20:32 | Report abuse


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Red_Kite says:

We need to know how big it is and where it was found. My first thought was wolverine, but if it's not that big (or in the wrong place) then maybe a marten or fisher? Or an otter. I'm pretty sure it's some kind of mustelid, but without knowing more about it its very hard to say which.

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posted on 2010-11-01 17:34:36 | Report abuse

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Jon-Richfield says:

Right. I am not terribly happy about the marten idea. Would the claws fit? Similarly the wolverine. I thought the teeth also were a bit light for wolverine. Not that I would bet a buck one way or the other. Fisher or otter would be my guess (any mustelid would beat any rodent, now that I can see that I had misread the teeth).

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posted on 2010-11-01 18:26:55 | Report abuse


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iziktom says:

Tasmanian Devil?

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posted on 2010-11-01 17:52:17 | Report abuse


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