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Help me! How can I deflesh a tortoise?
I’ve been lucky enough to acquire another beautiful specimen. It arrived in a box (though not from Amazon, despite what the box itself might suggest):
What’s inside?
Can it be? It is!
Now I’ve wanted a tortoise for a long time, because they are (Darren will back me up here) the freakiest of all tetrapods. Their scapulae and coracoids have somehow migrated inside their rib-cages (which bear the shell), and their dorsal vertebrae are fused to the shell all along its upper midline. Just ridiculous. Look, this is what I’m talking about. Compare with the much saner approach that armadillos use to having a shell.
Here’s my baby in left anterodorsolateral view:
And in right posteodorsolateral:
Can anyone tell me what species I have here?
Here he is (or she?) upside down, in left posteroventolateral view.
Come to think of it, can anyone tell me the sex of my specimen?
Here he or she is in anterior view, looking very stern.
The problem is — and I can’t quite believe this never occurred to me until I had a tortoise of my own — how on earth do you deflesh such a creature? I have no idea (and obviously no experience). Any hints?
Source: http://svpow.com/2016/03/22/help-me-how-can-i-deflesh-a-tortoise/
I’ve heard that you can deflesh small animals etc. by putting them on or near a Bull Ant nest. Cover the ‘deceased item’ with a metal mesh cage, so nothing/nobody can run off with it. Leave it there ’til all çleaned out.