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Roadkills useful for skeleton study
Thor Holmes, collection manager in mammology at the Natural History Museum, checks a bat skeleton that is being cleaned by dermestics at a West Campus location called the Bug Colony yesterday. The team will also make investigations so that the structure of the animal's anatomy can be studied.
Beetles used to clean carcasses for research use
By Jeremy Kohn
Kansan staff writer
A blur before the driver's eyes Think
Perhaps the driver swerved or braked. Maybe he didn't. But another carcass decorates the highway.
The job, called skeletal preparation, is a process that prepares animal carcasses for research.
For most motorists, dead animals are just a part of the scenery. For the KU department of mammalogy, they are part of a job.
One source of raw material for research is the Kansas Fish and Game Commission.
Thor Holmes, assistant curator at the Natural History Museum, said the agency gave roadkill they found to the department.
He said these carcasses and other specimens from the museum's own collectors were prepared for study in a way different than taxidermy.
"A axidermist is interested in posing a specimen in as lifelike a way as possible." Holmes said.
But the department's job is to
but research and teach. Holmes said
skeletal preparation does this by
preparing the carcasses as objects of
research rather than admiration.
Dermestes maculatus, or leather
Robert Timm assistant curator of
mammalogy for the museum, wrote in a magazine article that using the beetles was the most efficient way to rid an animal skeleton of its flesh.
Holmes said, "You can get them to eat the muscle tissue and leave the skeleton."
The beetles, which feed on the carcasses in a small West Campus building, are busy workers, though little is known about how determine how soon a carcass is completed. a small mammal is picked to the bone in a week or two,
The inside of the cinderblock building is odorous because of the beetles' favorite foods. A heater keeps the room warm. The temperature because cooler温度
atures slow down the activity.
"We've tried lots of tricks like artificial heating and light, but they still know when it's winter," Holmes said.
When Holmes spots slow activity on some carcasses, he applies a test method to improve their appetites.
Maybe so. But they like carcass dipped in bacon grease and hot water.
"Bugs are picky about what they eat," he said.
"They delight in it. Yeah, they love it," Holmes said.
The beetles do need some help while they work.
"One of your jobs is to kill clarids and sniders." Holmes said.
"We've tried lots of tricks like artificial heating and light, but they still know when it's winter."
M,
winter. Thor Holmes Natural History Museum
"I personally have collected over 2,000 precincts." Patterson said.
Spiders eat the leather beetles, and Clarid beetles compete with the leather beetles for the food. Mold also will drive the bugs away from their
Not all of the museum specimens come from the highway, however. Bob Patterson, vertebrate zoologist at the museum, said he had spent his career collecting and examining animals.
On his last major field trip in 1985, Patterson said KU faculty and mammalogians traveled to the Yukon territory and the Canadian arcic circle coast where they collected 250 specimens.
Holmes said that collecting specimens usually meant capturing groups of animals and deciding which ones should be used for observation.
The museum prepares these specimens the same way they do roadkills.
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mens the same way we **roadkills.**
Holmes said the internal organs are removed and the carcass is put in a fumigation chamber for 24 hours to kill parasites. Then it is put in ammonia to pull grease from the beetles then pick the skeleton as they did with the roadkills.
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