[Nhcoll-l] Preparation of small herp skulls

[Blaine Schubert]

I suggest selecting small dermestid larvae and monitoring closely.

All the best,
Blaine

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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Elizabeth Wommack <ewommack at uwyo.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Amos,
>
> I'd recommend working with a dermestid colony if you can.
>
> I tried soaking bird skeletons here in WY, and I lost bone structures as
> well. With our dermestid colony I've managed to clean small skeletons of
> all the vertebrate groups.
>
> cheers,
> Beth
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Amos Belmaker <belmakera at tauex.tau.ac.il>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> We are having problems with preparing skulls of small herps. They keep
>> falling apart. We currently put them in water.
>>
>>
>> Ideally we would like a method that would allow us to setup and then
>> "forget" about it until we can process the skull. While we could monitor
>> the preparations more frequently to catch them before they collapse it does
>> constrain our schedule.
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Amos
>>
>>
>>
>> *Amos Belmaker, *Ph.D.
>>
>> Bird collection manager, The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History,
>> Tel-Aviv University, Israel
>>
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