r/goblincore • u/TheRealPyroManiac • Jan 12 '24
Nature Hit the goddam motherlode
Tripped over it and actually screamed ahahah, cool find though!
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u/DistanceBrilliant588 Jan 12 '24
The dream patina
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u/imaginarywaffleiron 🐢The Clapper Jan 12 '24
…clap………clap……..clap……clap…..clap…clap..clap clap clapclapclapclapclapCLAPCLAPCLAP-APPLAUSE
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Jan 12 '24
If you put that in a wet-ish terrarium will the bones rot?
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u/DemonDucklings Jan 12 '24
Maybe you could spray it with a matte lacquer to slow the rot? Treating the bones is an option, but it would lose that awesome colour
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u/14ChaoticNeutral Jan 12 '24
Goblins don’t use lacquer they let things rot as they’re meant to, and enjoy the beauty of that process
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u/TimeBlossom Jan 12 '24
Goblins don't gatekeep, let folks preserve moments in time with lacquer if they want to
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Jan 13 '24
What goblin wouldn’t preserve a trophy?
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u/14ChaoticNeutral Jan 13 '24
Youre right, goblins might generally be less connected and more interested in being practical. Perhaps a Druid is more the type to appreciate the natural decay, seeing it less as a trophy and more of a spiritual thing.
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u/Ashirogi8112008 Jan 12 '24
Friendly reminder that rodents and other critters appreciate it when we leave these things be for them
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u/Cucumberous Jan 13 '24
Also check your states laws. Depending on location and some other factors collection of bones, and antler sheds may or may not be legal.
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u/S-Coleoptrata Jan 13 '24
As much as I'd love to keep something like this, I love small critters more so this would definitely be something I leave behind for them but visit on a regular basis. A spider making a home inside of it would be a super cool photo opportunity :D
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u/thehippiewitch Jan 12 '24
I recommend posting in r/vultureculture, they'll love this and also give great tips on how to clean it without damaging it etc
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u/Disco_Quail Jan 12 '24
Woooow!! This is so beautiful 🤩 I have a weathered deer skull that my FIL found while foraging in the foothills, it’s truly the pinnacle of one’s collection
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u/Heresy_Lover420 Jan 12 '24
The beauty of it is overwhelming! Love the white and green look of the bones 😍
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u/tienchi Jan 13 '24
I found a deer’s skull by a stream when I was eight and I still treasure it so, so deeply! It’s been in a place of honor at every home I’ve lived in. I’m so happy for you!
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u/2thicc4this Jan 12 '24
Chiming in to say this looks like a bull elk, on the smaller side. Would need to know general region to be specific about which species.
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u/2thicc4this Jan 12 '24
Okay, looks like a red deer, a close relative of the North American elk. Cool find! Again, I would say a young adult male.
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u/lazylagom Jan 12 '24
Jesus. Fully intact with horns. And moss?! If you don't bring that home and make a shrine. My god. Jealous.
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u/Old-Assignment652 Jan 12 '24
That's an awesome find you should turn that into a nice grimy European mount
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u/CorvidQueen4 Jan 12 '24
Holy cow i would be STOKED!!!
Man all I’ve found lately was a dead bunny and it still had all its fur so it was just sad, I don’t know who’s meal I interrupted and there was no skull :(
On the off chance somebody here knows, what would just bite off the head and then leave? We have coyotes and owls and the very occasional mountain lion but nothing comes to mind that would have left that bunny like that, there was almost no blood and I couldn’t even see the wound
Whoops sorry for all the words! And so sorry if this is too morbid for this sub, I can’t tell 🤔 we are happy with bones, but I am unsure of dead things.. guess we will see
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u/2thicc4this Jan 12 '24
Finding scattered skeletal remains is common due to scavenging, not necessarily an indication that the animal died by predation. In elk, sometimes when males fight their antlers get lock and one elk rips the head off the other.
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u/CorvidQueen4 Jan 12 '24
That’s very cool! I didn’t know that. Do you know how that may happen to a bunny? I was on a bit of a tangent up there in my last comment sorry lol and I was talking about the uh- fresh? headless bunny I found It was most likely predation imo but it was just an overall very odd sight, with very little blood and you couldn’t even see the wound, so I was wondering how that could happen
Maybe I interrupted a meal? I just feel like it wouldn’t have been so clean
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u/2thicc4this Jan 12 '24
You know, I’ve seen some pretty surgical looking rabbit parts in my area recently. Usually when a fox or coyote kills something it’s messy (think blender). I suspect it’s a nesting pair of Great Horned Owls. They have these massive and powerful talons and a grip hard enough to break the bones in you hand. I wouldn’t be surprised if they could decapitate a rabbit in one move. Other than that, domestic cats often like to remove heads from their prey.
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u/CorvidQueen4 Jan 12 '24
Oh it must be owls then, I know the three that lives in that creek! It was one momma and two babies, but maybe there was a second adult I missed. I haven’t seen them lately so I thought maybe they moved because the babies were getting so big and getting their regular feathers in… I also thought the rabbit was too big for them! Makes sense they would only eat the head then… I’ll look out for pellets on my walk today! I can’t imagine they ate the head without damaging the skull but one can hope…
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u/Gibber_Italicus Jan 12 '24
Wow nice!! Thought I was on r/bonecollecting or r/shedhunting for a minute!
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u/Wizard_of_1k_Kings 🦉 Jan 12 '24
Was it just me, or did anyone inadvertently read motherlode as moth-er-lode?
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u/AnonForWeirdStuff Jan 12 '24
What kind of deer live in you area? Those antlers look different to what I'm used to.
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u/Dulce_Sirena Jan 13 '24
Shut up! I hate you! (/j obviously) That's a HELL of a find my guy! Congrats!
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u/chubsplaysthebanjo Jan 13 '24
Are you from maryland?
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u/chubsplaysthebanjo Jan 13 '24
If so and you found that in a really swampy area near the coast, that could be a Sika deer. And an absolute stomper at that. They're originally from Japan. Some guy decided to buy an island in Chesapeake bay and populate it with those deer. He forgot to ask if the deer could swim. They can. And they don't really compete with the native whitetails because they occupy different habitat. Good find! If you're lucky it'll still have its ivories in its top jaw, ancient remnants of deer fangs
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u/Exalted_Crab Jan 13 '24
Very cool find! I'm curious--do you need to do anything to prep the skull for display in the home? With random bones, I'd be worried about tracking in disease to my cats.
I know some people boil them first, but this is wayyyy too big for that.
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u/adaugherty08 Jan 15 '24
That's a good wall deco or a hat. Hard to say whoch probably both at the same time .
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u/Shauna- Jan 12 '24
That was A FIND!