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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:52:08 -0800
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From: Carl Cook 
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Is there a law against carrying a skull? Of course, if the bird is 
protected, yes, they'll nail you,I guess. Would love to see the flamingo 
skull. Nice score.

The law frown on bald eagle skulls as well. The one on my web site belongs 
to a woman that found  the bird's body on a beach in Alaska many years ago. 
I borrowed it long enough to photograph and  gave it back. She now lives 
somewhere in the way out back in Alaska, so I guess the law can go look for 
here there.

I've got a harbor seal skull that a friend found on the beach. Like your 
dolphin, it too has a bullet hole. I've never gotten around to 
photographing it, and really should considering how long it took to clean 
it up.

I've also got a couple of mummified cats, mummified pigeons, and a 
mummified seagull to shoot. I know tihs is a lovely subject for the 
"non-remains photographic community" out there, but I guess we
can blame it 
on Barbara who started it with her illustrations for the Road Kill 
Cookbook. :)

You said porpoise and dolphin. Which is it -- or do you have both?

I always carry a couple of plastic bags in the car because one never knows 
what will be found for the journey home!

At 12:00 AM 3/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Non chatty? :)
>
>Well, I'll tell you the story of the first dolphin skull.  I was diving 
>off the coast of west Fla., and I came upon 1/2 of the lower jaw 
>bone...with no teeth in it.  I held it for quite a while telling myself, I 
>have a degree in biology and I should KNOW what this is!   I stuck it in 
>my belt and about an hour later was back within 15 feet of where I picked 
>it up and saw the skull.  I found another one a week later about a mile 
>from there.  Both have holes about 22 cal in them.  Felt real bad, but 
>I've only seen one other porpoise skull...in a museum.
>The flamingo...was hit by a car on Bonaire and I was smart enough to carry 
>a plastic bag in my camera bag, and back then...security was different. :)
>

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