Raccoon
A case of arthritis?
These scans are from a raccoon turned in to me by a trapper who told me the foot wouldn't bend. So I skeletonized it...there is a lot of fusion in the tarsals, as well as fusion of the distal fibula and tibia both together and with the neighbouring tarsals. The foot is under permanent inversion.
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R.F. Lauff
Department of Biology
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS Canada B2G 2W5