At last the weather is sufficiently decent, and reliable, that I can don my boots.
Here’s a fairly new pair made by the estimable outfit Tres Outlaws in El Paso, Texas. They’re tall (14-inch shafts), with fancy burgundy stitching that matches the oxblood vamps. Guess the hide (which isn’t hard), but then also guess which part of the animal they’re from:
1.Three-toed sloth?
2.Its feet?
A sheep. I want to say its face for the LOLz but I’ll go with somewhere on its torso. 🙂
legs crossed?
Ostrich belly?
You’d think the feathers would be closer together on the belly. What’s the area of a bird that has the most widely interspersed feathers?
I think this question was on the test last semester. 😉
Looks like I failed :).
Ostrich neck, bottom part of it.
Nice Boots!!!
If anyone is interested live Bald Eagles nest along the river in Pittsburgh. Two hatched and one to go… the male is slightly smaller and has a small white feather on his right side.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/hays-bald-eagle-cam/
And it’s a wildly popular site, too. I went on last night and noticed the Views counter – a perfect palindrome: 1,010,101.
Also, prompted by the appalling statistic that only 3% of the kids in the adjacent boro test proficient in biology, it occurred to me yesterday that it might be something that would interest the kids in the Children’s Library upstairs in the Library of my rustbelt town. When I went in, she was at her desk and watching it. It’s apparently VERY popular with the kids, which is great. For many, it’s probably their first encounter with biology outside of the urban sort.
Hummingbird tongues.
The outside part of the animal, whatever it is.
Water buffalo belly.
Elk loin
Creationist scrotum. Since it serves to protect the brains of the organism, it’s unusually thick.
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Mike was right at #4: Ostrich belly.