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Uncommonly Large Great Fruit-Eating Bat Skull

Uncommonly Large Great Fruit-Eating Bat Skull

$65.00 USD
$65.00 USD
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The perfect addition to your cabinet of curiosities, assemblage of oddities, or natural history collection, this skull of a Great Fruit-Eating Bat (Artibeus lituratus) is larger than life. Literally.

This skull been greatly enlarged for display and for study, and individually 3D printed in durable resin. The resulting specimen is sharply detailed, faithfully reproduced, and a beautiful art object on its own.

This perfectly unusual piece will add a little mystery to any bone collection, and makes a great gift for anyone interested in science, anatomy, Vulture Culture, or bats! Challenge your friends to a speed round of skull identification!

Great Fruit-Eating Bats live an interesting lifestyle that mainly revolves around, as you might have guessed, eating fruit. They live a harem lifestyle (with family groups of one male and multiple females), and actually send out scouting parties to find the juiciest of fruits. When the scouts report back, the rest of the family joins for a picnic, snatching the fruit right off the trees and flying away with it to another location to chow down. Presumably they're looking for somewhere scenic.


Measurements

7.5 x 4.75 x 4.25 inches

Materials

3D printed resin

Care Instructions

Resin will yellow when exposed even briefly to UV or sunlight; do not place your skull in a sunny location or near grow lights. Click here for more information on 3D print care and tips on painting.

Additional information

"Artibeus lituratus (MSB:Mamm:57033)" (https://skfb.ly/6VSJX) by Biodiversity is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY
These unsettlingly large skulls look incredible in any bone collector's hoard, but they're also valuable scientific learning tools, allowing anatomical study and up-close examination of what would normally be a very small, very delicate, and fairly rare skull to find in a typical bone collection.

Each bat skull is reproduced from a detailed 3D scan of a real bone specimen, and so is anatomically accurate, right down to the delicate structures in the nose and the anatomy in the skull's interior! But because the original skulls are extremely small and fragile, these reproductions may replicate areas where the originals were broken or missing parts. You'll normally be able to spot these areas easily, as the same structure on the other side will be intact. Please be aware that the model may not be 100% complete for scientific purposes.

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