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Bite marks

Lepus europaeus 03 MWNH 1534 sq

A brown hare skull showing arrangement of teeth.

The two upper incisors make impressions with four distinct arcs. This is because each tooth in the pair has a central groove and each side of the groove makes a small arc impression. The lower incisor pairs make very straight marks.

Photograph: by Klaus Rassinger und Gerhard Cammerer, Museum Wiesbaden [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]