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Know your mammal skulls? Take the Carnivore Skull Challenge!
In this image I have assembled photos of skulls (or casts of skulls) of six extant carnivores. I exclusively used photos from the Skulls Unlimited website because they had all the taxa I wanted, lit about the same and photographed from similar angles. The omission of scale indicators is deliberate.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to match these skulls with the animals they came from. Here are their currently-understood hierarchical relationships, scientific names, and common names (aside: I know this is ugly, is there a way to make nested tables in WordPress?).
Carnivora
- – Herpestoidea
- – – – Eupleridae
- – – – – – Fossa, Cryptoprocta ferox
- – – – Hyaenidae
- – – – – – Brown hyena, Hyaena brunnea
- – Arctoidea
- – – – Ursoidea
- – – – – – American black bear, Ursus americanus
- – – – Musteloidea
- – – – – – European badger, Meles meles
- – – – – – Wolverine, Gulo gulo
- – – – Pinnipedia
- – – – – – Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus
If you accept the challenge, leave your guesses as comments below, but only if you’ve played fair–no checking websites, references, or your own skull collection! Don’t worry about being wrong, I freely admit that I would have flunked this bigtime if anyone else had inflicted it on me. I decided to set up this challenge after I noticed the striking similarity between two of these critters in particular; I’ll tell you which two when I post the reveal in a day or two.
Source: http://svpow.com/2013/12/09/know-your-mammal-skulls-take-the-carnivore-skull-challenge/
