Canines Galore

Tupu Tupu Tupu - Peter Krott, 1958

cougar (juvenile/subadult) - full pelt - F

really fantastic skin for my personal collection, a juvenile female mountain lion from Utah, the third one I’ve tanned now! All have been rather recent (I was on a lion kick what can I say)

Picked up a Foam Dog Ball since they were on sale. Figured it would be good to have something like this on hand for clients with highly toy motivated dogs and it was a good price. It came in my preferred color too so that was cool 🙌🏽.

I got the 2.75 inch one instead of the 3.5 but I might grab a 3.5 if they run another good sale any time soon.

Kalakocetus aurorae was an early cetacean that lived during the Eocene, about 50-48 million years ago, in what is now the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent.

It represents the (currently) most basal known branch of the whale lineage, with teeth that are transitional between the crushing herbivorous-omnivorous molars of the closely-related raoellids and the shearing carnivorous molars of later archaeocetes.

Only known from a lower jaw and teeth, its full life appearance is unknown — but based on the body proportions of other early cetaceans it would have been a roughly cat-sized animal, around 60cm long (~2'), possibly resembling a smaller version of its better-known relative Pakicetus. It was also probably similarly semiaquatic, wading into rivers to hunt fish and other small freshwater prey.

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