Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years
smithsonianmag.com
smithsonianmag.com
I have to imagine being deep in a dark cave, surrounded by gnawed bones including human remains, hearing that must have been terrifying.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-021-01365-6
I'll admit I thought, what's that one person? But it is at least 10
Parrot 13 - 25
T. rex probably ~200 bones
Human Adult - 206
Mouse - 255
Human baby - ~300
Dog - 319
Elephant - 326–351
Blue Whale - 356
Snake 300-400, 1800 python
Human babies bones fuse as well to go from 300 bones to 206
Chickens are easier to find - 120
May be it's wrong, but it's impossible to confirm. Birds do have less because of flight.
The origin of "13-25" is interesting - it seems to be a commonly cited range for how many neck vertebrae birds in general have. This is the kind of category error that Google's "answer engine" is notorious for. I wonder if the author of that wrong top Google result also got it from Google...
How many bones in a flight'ed bird. No chickens or mostly ground based birds.
Bonus points if it's a parrot, which I can't find.
The number of foot bones in humans is not consistent. Some people have more, others have less.
My podiatrist told me this.
When I asked him about the foot bones of other mammals, such as dogs and cows, he said “Whoooah!!!”. The conversation became animated. He could hardly contain himself.
... A fun social phenomenon of Hyena and Man as an aside:
The Hyena Men of Nigeria
> “The most surprising thing comes down to just how well preserved the material is, and how much material there is, given that in Saudi we have no faunal remains, really,” Stewart tells Gizmodo.
From that perspective it's quite interesting, a data point in the middle of nowhere.