bear-dog Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 I need help with info. about horses.For B.S.[before Stoke] I could rember a lot,like astraguli [left or right] etc.I can not remember how to distinuish male and female items.Any help will be gratfully apeciated.Hopefully my dead mind will let you understand this. Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-dog Posted September 29, 2012 Author Share Posted September 29, 2012 Any takers? Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-dog Posted September 29, 2012 Author Share Posted September 29, 2012 Guess not. Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Harry or Nate can answer this (and they're not on right now); I didn't even know you could distinguish male and female equine skeletal elements (but suspected that maybe it was possible with the pelvis). "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 I am not aware of sexual dimorphism in horse postcranial bones. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-dog Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 Thanks for the help.Yes in a fossil booh there is a way to tell,in the bones in the horse legs. Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-dog Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 I remember a book on Mammal Osteology with a page on the horse astrogalus that deals with it. Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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