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  • I need to do chores today, so I instead used my procrastination energy here! It’s the molar of a herbivore. Here’s what I have:

    Definitely not beaver. Beaver incisors are orange and shaped very differently and it’s far too large to be a beaver premolar or molar. Wrong morphology anyhow - beaver pre/molars are plicated and this is not. It’s also not from a muskrat based on all the same criteria but the plication.

    It’s definitely from a bovid, not from a caprid or equid. Equids tend to have these bizarre columnar molars, and caprid molars are too small and the wrong shape. Since you’re in Germany, that leaves us with cows and European bison.

    It’s the first or second molar from one of those based on the two cusps; if it had three cusps, it’d be the third molar. What clinches it is the asymmetrical gap in the roots (called a furcation area). Cows have a gap right in the middle of their first and second molars, whereas bison have an off-center gap in their first molar.

    Congratulations, you have a bison M1!

    Cow X-ray

    Bison X-ray
















  • I was poly for about a decade. There’s a lot of solid advice in this thread. The only point I want to hammer home is the amount of unavoidable drama inherent to human romantic relationships increases significantly. It doesn’t just double: going from a two to three person relationship it quadruples.

    Nothing disastrous or even bad happened due to being poly. I don’t regret it at all and would consider it again in the future. When I met my current partner and they said they wanted to be monogamous, though, I was happy to take a break.