I want to no how to find skeletal pictures of animals and number of bones in their bodies for holloween diplay

Question

I am going to creat a wall display of animal skeltons indicating how many bones are in the animal, I need to know where to download skeletal animal pictures from and how to find out the number of bones in the animal, this is for holloween wall display in a radiology dept of a hospital, I want to creat a fun way of celebrating holloween and a leaning experience at the same time. any animals would be fine. I don't have the funds to purchase items to display it must be something I can print from the web. we will have school children (classrooms) tour the hospital and instead of scary I am looking for informational, fun and holloweenie.

Answer 1

This is a great idea! :-)
I'm a zoologist and I work with animal skeletons every day, but I'm sure that it won't be easy to find data about specific nº of bones for a species, especially because some amounts are variable among individuals. There are no "list of bones" that I'm aware of.. and some vertebrates such as the fishes or even the reptiles have many more bones than we do!
The information will probably be available for domestic species (dog, cat, horse, etc) and some others that have been specifically studied, so you could choose from well-known animals.


For images, go to Biodidac, it's a free Canadian site with educational resources. Lots of pictures of skeletons:
http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/

Or use Google Image search:
http://images.google.com/

I'd be glad to help, so once you choose which animals to use I could try to search for specific information about the skeletons of those species. Just send me a message via my profile page :-)

Good luck!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Well, you could look it up in an encyclopedia on the internet, or browse for pictures on what you are looking for, by using google or a related website. You could go to a science site and search for things there.

Answer 4

same as humans