Mystery Skull

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>>2256677
that's not a skull

Looks like a poorly drawn camel skull. Or a skull relating to the camel/alpaca family. They have some wicked sharp teeth.

>>2256677
Porqué no los dos?

>>2256677
herbivore obviously.

>>2256681
nicely meme'd, lad

>>2256677
Hippopotamus I presume?

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>>2256677
Looks more like a kind of hippo closer to the pygmy-hippo, but not necessarily the same
http://store.dinosaurgeorge.com/Pygmy-Hippopotamus-Skull-Female-2157.htm

>>2256677
With the difference in the sharp front teeth and the molars in the back, I'd say omnivore.

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Came back to this thread. I was right. I know my shit and recognized those teeth even with how shit it's drawn.
>>2256684

https://ncse.com/rncse/18/6/over-hump-taking-aig-camel-challenge

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>>2258791
Damn that really is a shit sketch

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>>2258914

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>>2258916
They are also a lot narrower from the front than I thought

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>>2258791
The drawing looks more accurate when looking at it in the middle of decomposition.
https://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/129309573v7681689-skull-of-a-camel-acacus-mountains-or

Also, why did it have such large canines? It is almost as if they used to be omnivorous.

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>>2258918
for show?

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>>2256677
Am omnivore, dumbass.

>>2258995
Don't those deer use those teeth more like tusks to dig up roots?
Or are they really just for show?


Camels do not seem to use their teeth for any of these reasons.

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>>2259079
only the male has it

i imagine camels use their sharp teeth for processing rugged desert vegetation

>>2259079
Camels use those teeth to bite the shit out of things.
Horses have teeth like that too, sort of.

>>2256677
The molars highly suggest a Herbivore. Herbivores often exhibit sharp canines and incisors which serve as more of either an intimidation technique or tool for combat. A suitable comparison would be pigs or most hippos.

>>2259096
Only stallions do, and I assume those do not serve any purpose anymore. Hippos use theirs for intimidation and fighting, and the impractical length of >>2258995 suggests that they may just be for display, like a deers antlers.

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>>2258918
>>2259081
In llamas and alpacas they are considered 'fighting' teeth as well as called canines. They are much larger than males. Male llamas and alpacas may fight other males very aggressively. I'm talking lacerations and tearing off their testicles. Aggressive males like that are usually not bred or they get their canines trimmed.

Camels aren't really kept here in the west as often but they're all camelids so I imagine it's the same for camels.
Male horses also have fighting teeth. I have a male horse skull and his fighting teeth are scarily sharp.

Also fun fact: Sometimes whitetail and mule deer pop up with fangs believed due to their share ancestory with asian species of deer with canines(and not just chinese water deer.).