<blockquote>Quote<br><hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>MyNewfy</b></i><br>A chacma baboon.<hr></blockquote>
I will consider MyNewfy to be the winner!
It is indeed a Baboon skull, and since I don't know the exact type of Baboon, I was in South Africa when I acquired the skull, and the Chacma Baboons are listed as being heavily represented in South Africa!
So MyNewfy wins, with special inclusion of Charlotte due to the first guess of monkey skull, that I tried to pretend that I did not see because I wanted to continue the game <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
Thanks for playing, and I will now write up a prize for MyNewfy and Charlotte!
Let's do this on each friday night! I will now take a picture of my baboon skull and share it with you.
As for how I got my baboon skull: For some real odd reason, due to me being way into skulls and skeletons, I thought it would be very cool if I were to find a baboon skull naturally in the wild somewhere (baboons are all over the place down there, almost like seagulls in florida). I looked all over, and to no avail I didnt find one. I let my relatives know of my desires, and they thought it was weird but looked for one for me. I was walking around with my older relative one day and passed one of the many voodoo shops that they have in the area, and there was a perfect baboon skull on display for sale. I didn't think of the ramifications of purchasing the skull untill after wards. After I bought it I was made away that it was probably procured via poaching, and that they will probably replace the skull with a new one. I felt real bad afterwards, and swore i'd never purchase another animal skull or skeleton by any means aside from 100% guaranteed natural death (non poaching/human intervention etc). So I learned my lesson from that, even though I should have known better to begin with. Anyways, it is the prize of my collection, and I use it to explain just how precious baboons in general are to others, so in a way it's death wasn't in vain.
Congratuations!
(I will upload the pics in a min)