Sorex vagrans
This is one of the more challenging tasks I decided to undertake last week — the project involved writing the tags for, and the catalog numbers on about 50 shrew skulls. Some of these skulls are barely over 1/2inch long and can be as thin as tissue paper, meaning writing a 5-digit catalog number on them can be quite tedious. One day I couldn’t even continue because I had one too many cups of coffee and the minor trembling of my hands would have been disastrous. In the end I had to enlist Dave’s help and we finally got them all numbered and put away.
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thunderboltjackson said:
i hear ya! i had to macerate a smoky shrew (sorex fumeus) for a course once, and trying to remove all the tissue from such a fragile skull, collect up all of its postcranials and label what i could was such a pain in the ass.
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noworseforwear reblogged this from crotalinae and added:
jealous. I need to get a degree so i can do tedious and pleasurable tasks such as these.
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crotalinae reblogged this from umzoology and added:
You are amazing! Those...so incredibly fragile that...like...
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marycwells said:
I love numbering! I was always working on bats, shrews, and other tiny things.
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