Friday again, so it’s time for another mystery object. Any idea what this is?
As usual, feel free to ask questions in the comments section below – I will do my best to answer. Good luck!
Zygoma
Adventures in natural history collections
Friday again, so it’s time for another mystery object. Any idea what this is?
As usual, feel free to ask questions in the comments section below – I will do my best to answer. Good luck!
Zygoma 
Anteater
No, that’s stupid. Er, a lemur?
Substantially closer than your first guess, but not quite there.
Some kind of monkey? The skull looks a bit like a gorilla, but that doesn’t match the rest of the skeleton.
Doing well so far! But what kind of monkey?
Old World, something to do with the shape of the nose I think, but that is as far as I have got.
Not old-world!
What’s the scale on this one?
(Tried mandrill, but the muzzle is too long, sooty mangabey is a possible and howler monkey skulls look wierd)
The skull is about 12.5cm long
@SmallCasserole….what is it with you and sooty mangabeys? 😉
Howler?
It wasn’t that funny (ba-doom, tish).
What makes you say that?
I’m just demonstrating my wide knowledge of monkey names.
How about a Woolly monkey?
I’m going for a Kinkajou. (must admit I’m not sure)
It’s amazing how human-like the skulls of the monkeys look. This one is a bit less human than others, lower mandible is massive.
Sticking with the bad puns…
Kinkajou – is that like a semitic fetishist?
Weak I know.
It’s not one of them though – it is a monkey of some kind, rather than a member of the Carnivora.
I think it’s a howler monkey, not sure which species but some of them do have a a very heavy looking lower jaw. Suspect it’s one of the smaller howler monkeys.
I think it is a howler monkey because I looked on google images for monkey skull and found this which looks the same:
An Aye-Aye. Because its my favouritely named animal.