Sunday 11 November 2012

Name that Jaw...

What would you expect to find on a peaceful afternoon's walk around the Lac de Verdon? Wild flowers, fungi, the odd dragonfly and a variety of birds?

Well we saw all of those and will be posting about these in more detail in a day or two.

But what was it that really caught Elizabeth's eye?? A lower jaw of some now deceased animal...
Judging by the length and colour of the incisors and the number and pattern of the molars, we believe this to be a coypu (see here)

First roe deer droppings and now a coypu's lower jawbone; goodness knows what she'll find next!

But one thing's for sure... she'll have the camera at the ready!

4 comments:

Susan said...

I once spent a holiday in Australia mostly photographing marsupial poo. (Wombats do cubes, btw.)

Tim said...

Keeping with the theme, Coypoo is well correct.... given the damage they do to riverbanks, especially ours, I'm very glad they managed to eradicate them from Norfolk and Suffolk [their only ever stronghold in the UK].
Look out for paté du Lievre de Marais... it is coypu paté!! Apparently there is good eating on a coypu.

GaynorB said...

Is it a case of " I love coypu, but I couldn't eat a whole one" ....?

Colin and Elizabeth said...

It tastes like chicken!!! Yum