We were thinking beaver but don’t they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
Looks to me like it’s from a creek in Germany.
I love it when experts from around the world provide their knowledge for curious people!
I’d even go so far to speculate it’s from an animal.
It might not be an animal, it might be an African Strangler
Can you take a photo next to a euro coin, for scale?
Or a banana, of course.
Wrong site
I don’t have it here unfortunately but it’s about 5cm/2" long
I don’t have it here
I assume you cashed it in with the tooth fairy?
I feel like that’s ten euros at least.
As others have guessed, this is a bovid tooth, Bos taurus (cow).
Are these serrations typical? They look quite mean.
Yes, very typical.
Germany, you say? It’s local name will be something with WAY too many letters.
Edit: Relax, folks. ALL languages are kinda messy in their own way. There’s a difference between a good-natured joke and heartfelt criticism. I’m not criticizing anything. Plus, I’m speaking English, which is an absolute dumpster fire.
Der gemeine Waldundwiesenlangzahn
Nicht aber von Ziege. OP weiß, wie Ziegenfalle aussehen.
English is perfectly reasonable… if you think taking root words from 3 or 4 languages as a core and fleshing it out with words from another half dozen languages and stitching it together with grammar that kind of matches a couple of those languages is reasonable.
Non-native speakers who become seamlessly fluent genuinely impress me.
English is almost entirely just what feels right. No English speaker has perfect English. I’m sure that Germans have the same with all the 16 uses of “the”. English just has more.
Einhörnchen? (That’s squirrel, def not one of those)
Looks like Beaver to me.
where’s the “yo momma” answers? I’m disappointed
beavers teeth has iron hence the orange teeth. most mammals teeth are based on apatite. some animals have other metals like zinc or iron.
Bison/bovine
Isn’t that some kind of incisor? Do they have those? 😅
Yes they do
A bison in Germany?
possibly a bovine, maybe buffalo but not a bison unless its in the US
Likely muskrat or beaver.
Maybe beaver teeth go from orange to brown when they die due to further iron oxidation
I found a very similar one, also in Germany, many years ago. I figured mine was a cow tooth, although I’m not sure how old it was. Most people no longer kept cows in that town at the time that I lived there.
Looks like some kinda rodent teeth
