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Turkey skeleton audit

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Back in at least 2008 — maybe earlier — I kept all the bones from our good-sized Christmas turkey. Of course, it’s missing the head, neck and feet, but otherwise it’s pretty much all there. (I may also have the neck, but if so then it was supplied as a separate item, and prepared separately.) Here is the box of postcervical bones:

As I was transferring them to a better box today, it occurred to me to lay them  out and see how much sense I could make of them. Here’s what I did with the bones I was happy about:

I should  have put something in the photo to act as a scale-bar, because it’s not apparent from this photo that a turkey is a pretty big thing. From top to bottom of the skeleton as I laid it out here is about 90 cm.

Here are my (in some cases tentative) identifications of the bones:

Are there any obvious mistakes in there? And have I got any of the bones left-right reversed?

Now, here are all the other bones that I was less confident about the positions of:

On the left of course we have the dorsal ribs, but I’ve not been able to arrange them all into near pairs, nor figure out what order I should impose on the pairs that I do have. I’m not even sure how many pairs I should have. On the right are other paired bones whose identity I can’t figure out. I am guessing that the longer ones are probably sternal ribs and that the irregularly shaped ones might be parts of the wrist, but I would welcome corrections and clarifications. Finally, the middle column contains the bones whose idea I have little or no idea about, and which don’t appear to be paired. Any ideas?


By the way, I found this image useful in figuring out the identities of the appendicular bones:

And this one useful for the bones of the wing and especially the hand:

More from this skeleton another time!


Source:
https://svpow.com/2022/02/16/turkey-skeleton-audit/


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