Animal hide ID

[snowandrocks]

Any thoughts on what this is/was?

Found it today in my garden in Aberdeenshire. About a foot long and really quite thick and fluffy fur.

Just the skin left with all the flesh cleanly removed.

[The Rotrex Kid]

Could be a stoat or a weasel.

Weasels are normally weasely identified and stoats are stoatally different though.

[Chubbyross]

One of Trump’s hairpieces?

[Smoggy XJR]

Wild Sporran?

[Equus]

I'd go with stoat.

[Sheets Tabuer]

I was gonna say Beaver but I've not seen one that hairy since I was a teenager.

[Desiderata]

Throw on the ground and if it bounces then it's a stoat .

[snowandrocks]

Haha, thanks for the responses!

I also asked on a taxidermy Facebook group and they were quite certain that it's actually the rear end of a roe deer. I was thrown by assuming it was the whole thing rather than part of something bigger.

I assume a fox/wildcat/buzzard/eagle must have cleanly stripped it and left it there.

[Equus]

snowandrocks said:

I also asked on a taxidermy Facebook group and they were quite certain that it's actually the rear end of a roe deer

Really?

Well, I suppose they ought to have the greater expertise, but I'm pretty familiar with roe deer (cant swing a cat without hitting one, round here), and I'm just not seeing that. The basic colour is wrong, and the only white on a roe deer is around its tail, which has a distinctive pattern of (much longer) hair.

Google images of roe deer, and see if you disagree with me!?

[snowandrocks]

Yeah I can see your point! I did get at least a dozen replies saying Roe with a few saying Red - they are both around in reasonable numbers.

I did post some other photos on FB but they don't really show anything different. It obviously doesn't matter, it was just to satisfy my curiosity.