It’s a metal skeleton, not a real one.

It is part of a display at Edinburgh Zoo to illustrate the similarities and differences in the skeletons of humans and chimpanzees.

One thing I noticed were the pelvic bones on the chimp, which were long spatula shapes lying alongside the trunk rather than the hip bones that we humans have.

How I Made The Image

I shot the image in RAW with an Olympus E-PM1, and after processing it with Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop, I converted the image to black and white with Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro 2.

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Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe

Not quite the same, because the representation is not of a skeleton but of a model of a skeleton, but the title of this post is based on René Magritte’s painting.

Click on the pipe image to read about the treachery of images on Wikipedia.