Saturday 26 March 2011

Finally, some answers





Answers:
a) African hunting dog (Lycaon pictus) - skull #14
b) grey wolf (Canis lupus) - skull #3
c) cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) - skull #8
d) Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) - skull #16
e) aardwolf (Proteles cristatus) - skull #7
f) South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) - skull #5
g) white-nosed coati (Nasua narica) - skull #24
h) binturong (Arctictis binturong) - skull #22
i) Soay sheep (Ovis aries) - skull #17
j) guanaco (Lama guanicoe) - skull #20
k) Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis) - skull #10
l) Reeves' muntjac (Muntiacus reevesii) - skull #2
m) white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) - skull #11
n) western hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) - skull #13
o) European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) - skull #18
p) donkey (Equus asinus) - skull #4
q) Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) - skull #9
r) okapi (Okapia johnstoni) - skull #6
s) aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) - skull #1
t) white-crested gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) - skull #23
u) Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum) - skull #12
v) aardvark (Orycteropus afer) - skull #21
w) yellow armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus) - skull #19
x) giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) - skull #15

The winning entry was by Andrea J., so congratulations! No-one got them all right though, if you did but didn't enter, well done but shame on you. New puzzle coming shortly... um, eventually!

4 comments:

A. Jaszlics said...

Awesome! But now I have to go back and figure out what I missed...

Ed said...

Most of my mistakes stemmed from the fact I wrongly identified the aardwolf as a hyena and thus got mixed up trying to find the skull with the biggest teeth! Thus the big-cats, dogs and the sea lion all became mixed up.

That white-cheeked gibbon is VERY similar to the female black-crested gibbon that I put down, very confusing!

Maybe a reptile version next time!

A. Jaszlics said...

... and now that I realized which two species I mixed up, I'm just embarassed...

... a cheetah is not a tiger!

m said...

Well done to the both of you anyway. Andrea, I think those were the only two you mixed up, I will admit the cheetah skull wasn't the best photo but the only one I had. Ed, I may very well do a reptile version soon, so stay tuned!