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Upirium

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:18 pm
I found this whilst on vacation, in a river....Thought it may be a possum but it's snout seems kind of short? Anyone have any ideas? I only really got two pics of it from the top but the top was even harder to tell what it was than the bottom, other than it was covered in tufts of fur and mostly bald.

The first two pics really were just documenting the butterfly which I find pretty interesting that it was so attracted to death


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Then I flipped it over...

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and it's teeth, or what was left.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:43 pm
small dog or raccoon, its hard to tell from the belly angle

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can you do a closeup of the feet?  

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:58 pm
The butterfly is a tiger swallowtail. Not that you were asking. ninja

No clue on the dead animal though. I'll look and if I find any ideas I'll come back.  
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:09 pm
that looks like a dog to me, probably been there a while  

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:23 pm
It looks more like a pig to me. Cloven hooves, round, digger teeth  
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:04 pm

El Chupacabra! Jk. It kinda looks like a giant rat creature with fangs eek
 

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:12 pm
Azusanga
It looks more like a pig to me. Cloven hooves, round, digger teeth

it had paws  
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:30 pm
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small dog or raccoon, its hard to tell from the belly angle

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can you do a closeup of the feet?

this is all I could do
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top and bottom paw  

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:31 pm
I'll go with raccoon. That tail looks as though it has slipped fur.  
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:31 pm
I originally thought it might be a dog, but after the paw pics I'm going to say raccoon for sure.  

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:24 pm
I think the front paw definitely looks like coon hands. Seeing the beautiful buterfly on such a very VERY dead thing... am I weird to say I find it quite symbolic? A life/death contrast type thing I suppose.  
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:54 pm
It looks like a possum to me. I can tell by its overall marbled appearance that it is going through the bloat stage of decomposition. The bloating maybe causing its snout to appear smaller.

=u= I lost my appetite...

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:55 pm
I agree, I think it's a possom.  
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:12 pm
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I think the front paw definitely looks like coon hands. Seeing the beautiful buterfly on such a very VERY dead thing... am I weird to say I find it quite symbolic? A life/death contrast type thing I suppose.
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Death is as beautiful as life? Or it's maybe the butterfly is the murderer! gonk

@OP; looks like a possum, I knew it's not a dog by looking at the teeth. xD
 


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:13 am
im going with coon. the teeth just dont look right to be a possum

raccoon teeth

and im having trouble finding a good pic of possum teeth but they are similar, though the possom teeth point forward a bit more  
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