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Thread: A horny thread - can you identify this?

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    Grand Master TheFlyingBanana's Avatar
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    A horny thread - can you identify this?

    Found yesterday behind my back gate on our driveway just by one of our cars. I have absolutely no idea how it got there, and although it looks vaguely familiar, I am not sure what animal it comes from.

    Any ideas?

    PS - After extensive research I have comprehensively ruled out a slow worm.


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    Are you 100% sure it's horn/animal material?

    I'm assuming it's about 1.5 to 2 inches long by the background - although we have nothing to judge scale against. If it's horn, then I'd say goat/small deer perhaps?

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    A good point - just measured it - it is five inches long.
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    Looks like it might be the small anterior horn of a muntjac? Hard to say without scale but here's an image:


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    Antler dog treat/chew?

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    That is not deer antler, which is white underneath a dark outside, and is not fibrous like that.
    I would say it is definitely horn and not antler.

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    A very small Rhinoceros?
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    Horse / cow hoof sliver, something along those lines, definitely keratinous not bony like antler - probably (as mentioned) a dog chew picked-up by fox or corvids and dropped there.

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    King penguin?

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    I've taken some more pics - hopefully giving more closeup detail.

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    A shark tooth.

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    Coconut husk, perhaps dropped by a, now unladen, swallow

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    Is it, perhaps, just a gash .... piece of wood?

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    Something that's fallen off your Aston?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brighty View Post
    Coconut husk, perhaps dropped by a, now unladen, swallow
    African or European ?

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