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Skeletal Reconstruction in Vertebrate Zoology

 
 

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Build-a-Critter is an extended laboratory exercise in BIO270 Vertebrate Zoology.  In this exercise students work in groups to prepare, articulate, and mount vertebrate skeletons, for inclusion in the Wesleyan Osteology Collection of vertebrate study materials.

 

"Racer" is a house finch Carpodacus mexicanus articulated and mounted by Amber Mathews during spring 2006.

 

 


Students in BIO270 Spring 2013 prepared, articulated, and mounted nine skeletons:

Plains Pocket Gopher

 Geomys bursarius

Osteology Collection

Domestic

Dog

Canis lupus familiaris

Osteology Collection

 Asian Small-

Clawed Otter

 Aonyx cinerea

Osteology Collection

Tammar Wallaby

 Macropus eugenii

Osteology Collection

 Small Asian

Mongoose

 Herpestes javanicus

Osteology Collection

 

Hoffmann's Two-Toed Sloth

 Choloepus hoffmanni

Osteology Collection

Chinese

Bamboo Rat

 Rhizomys sinensis

Osteology Collection

Reeves'

Muntjac

 Muntiacus reevesi

Osteology Collection

White-Tailed

Prairie Dog

 Cynomys leucurus

Osteology Collection


 

Students in BIO270 Spring 2011 prepared, articulated, and mounted six skeletons:

Tree

Pangolin

 Manis tricuspis

Osteology Collection

 Hammer-Headed Bat

Hysignathus monstrosus

Osteology Collection

 Crab-Eating Macaque

 Macaca fascicularis

Osteology Collection

European Hedgehog

 Erinaceus europaeus

Osteology Collection

 Nine-Banded Armadillo

 Dasypus novemcinctus

Osteology Collection

 

Common Snapping Turtle

 Chelydra serpentina

Osteology Collection


Students in BIO270 Spring 2009 prepared, articulated, and mounted six skeletons:

Swift

Fox

 Vulpes velox

Osteology Collection

 Northern Pygmy Owl

Glaucidium gnoma

Osteology Collection

 Virginia Opossum

 Didelphis virginiana

Osteology Collection

Cockatiel

 Nymphicus hollandicus

Osteology Collection

Ringtail

 Bassariscus astutus

Osteology Collection

Leopard Tortoise

 Geochelone pardalis

Osteology Collection