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No. 353347

Vulture Culture is a subculture of collectors of bones, pelts, and other animal remains.

Any other /vultures/ here? What's your rarest find? Any tips for cleaning and bleaching?

No. 354532

ew keep that nasty shit to your tumblr page, it's embarrassing

No. 354540

>>354532
I agree but why did you bump the thread to post this, idiot?

No. 354557

>>354532
>>354540
just curious why this sort of stuff has a bad rap. i am a bit of a natural history nerd and will pick up a cool-looking feather or bone on the trail if i go out hiking. is it because it attracts autism and gross behavior?

No. 354576

im actually interested, op ! but you should post a few images and stories to kickstart the thread.

No. 354816

I don't get out as often as I'd like, but I got lucky a few times in finding a complete fish skeleton that held together really well in a dried lake bed, and a horse tooth.

And while I don't do this, it's bad to collect seashells and the like right?

No. 354864

>>354816
>seashells
If you're scuba diving it's a massive no-no in the community to take anything at all with you back to the surface.

If you're on the beach and it's absolutely littered with shells I honestly don't think it matters as long as there is no live animal inside the shell. Try not to take the kinds of shells hermit crabs use if you're in their habitat, as it's really hard for them to find the right size shell to inhabit. So as many choices as possible is best for them.

No. 354894

>>354864
Many shells washed up on beaches are vital to creatures like hermit crabs. Shells are also used in dozens of ways by animals on beaches and in the ocean. It's better to just avoid taking them, or at least don't take a ton of them.

I personally love vulture culture, I have a small collection of skulls and (legal) feathers, plus some misc stuff like snake sheds and fur tufts.

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No. 355629

This is fucking interesting I love that. But I don’t know if lolcow is the right place for it ?

No. 355632

>>353347

I found a deer skeleton a year ago, I took the skull. I'm not into vulture culture but I just thought it was pretty. It had cool antlers and everything. But I haven't cleaned or bleached it, I just hung it in my yard fence outside.

I kinda want to bring it in but I'm scared to clean and bleach it, I'm scared I will ruin it somehow… I read that the teeth fall off if I boil it? Do they? It's semi-clean as birds have cleaned it a lot but definitely not clean enough to bring inside.

No. 355666

>>355632
Bleaching is one thing you shouldn't do use hydrogen peroxide instead

No. 355668

>>355629
Yeah how are we even supposed to shoehorn in a conversation about race and nasolabial folds???

No. 355682

>>355632
whoaw that's so cool, where did you find that?

No. 355686

I used to walk by a deer corpse on my way to work. Its eye was empty and the fur had sloughed off of its ribs, piling up and freezing to the snowless ground. The various hairs clumped up like that reminded me of the little extra bits of Frosted Mini Wheats that would always be left in the bottom of the bowl. I loved slurping that all up as a child.

I never grabbed anything off of the corpse but it made me lol everyday.

No. 355804

>>355686
What about that made you 'lol'? That's gross and sad, anon. Nothing 'lol' worthy about the corpse of a creature that likely suffered in its death, jesus.

No. 356006

>>355804
You sound like a pansy. Living things suffer and die every second. You might as well shit on anyone who eats meat because they’re getting enjoyment from an animal that probably suffered more than an animal in the wild. Some people have a morbid sense of humor, get over it.

No. 356079

>>355632

Cleaning is pretty easy, warm soapy water with grease cutting dishwashing soap.

If its still fleshy, loads of different ways, I like using beetles.

Bleaching: Hydrogen peroxide or natural sun bleaching.

Happy scavenging!

No. 356081

>>356006
Ok edgelord. Even if you aren't bothered by death or have a dark sense of humour, there is literally no punchline to whatever joke you think a rotting dead deer presents. What on earth is remotely amusing about it?

No. 356109

>>356081
Maybe if you had any reading comprehension, you would’ve found out that particular anon already stated in her post that she found the comparison of a childhood memory to a morbid scene to be amusing.

No. 358603

>>355666
Hydrogen peroxide is a type of bleach.

No. 359476

>>355632
Since you found it a year ago I'm going to assume any leftover tissue is dry. You'll need to rehydrate it. It'll need to be submerged in water for at least 24 hours, and it's gonna smell so I'd recommend keeping it outside.
Once the tissue is "wet", do pretty much what >>356079 said. If you can't get beetles: find an active ant hill, attach the skull to a sturdy stick using wire, stick it in the ground right by the ant hill and leave it for a few days.

Good luck!

No. 359477

>>356109
"Dead deer reminds me of frosted miniwheats that I used to eat, so funny that I lol @ it everyday I see it!" Literally nothing funny about it, let alone funny enough to cause you to chuckle everyday you passed by it? Maybe if it were actually humorous people would 'get' her comment? Either she's got the lowest bar for humor, ever, or she's just an edgelord.


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