According to Darren Naish in his book All Yesterdays, this is what a modern baboon looks like when reconstructed from it's skeleton using the same techniques artists use to reconstruct dinosaurs from their skeletons.
(H/T to Quora for this: Â http://www.contriving.net/link/bm)
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I am not surprised. There's only so many assumptions you can make on muscle structure and such from a skeleton alone.
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Question is, what does a shaved Baboon look like?
Not quite that skinny.
Thing is, if you take a baboon, shave it, melt all of its body fat out and tighten in its skin until it's shrink-wrapped over it, that is what it would look like.
Meanwhile, they have a crowd of adorable Leallynasaura in that book, all done up pudgy and fluffy and with great big signal feathers on their tails. They're quite possibly the cutest non-avian dinosaur representation ever.
Let's also consider that assumptions gleaned from the morphology of reptiles when applied to the bone structure of mammals will create a very strange looking animal that looks less like a mammal.
+David Bullard As indeed it will for stem birds.
+Gert Sønderby Aye, indeed.
+Gert Sønderby says:
Thing is, if you take a baboon, shave it, melt all of its body fat out and tighten in its skin until it's shrink-wrapped over it, that is what it would look like.
Right. Â That's the point, isn't it? Â By using "thing is" it sounds as if you're offering an alternative, more accurate explanation from the one offered so some or all of the following hold true:
I misunderstood what sort of idea you're trying to convey, I misunderstood what sort of idea I conveyed by my post to most people, or you misunderstood what sort of idea I was trying to convey.
Anyway, your point is the point(s) I certainly took away from the image.
+Dustin Wyatt I should've maybe addressed that post directly to Mz Maau, instead – it was her post I was responding to. I wanted to point out that the 'shrink-wrap'method, while flawed, is based on quite solid science – as is the image above.
I do not believe I indicated it was a bad practice, +Gert Sønderby. Â I was only trying to express that there are limits to what you can do or recreate when all you have is a set of bones in front of you. Â Which there is nothing wrong with. Â It's just a fact to be accepted and move on.
+Mz Maau I intended no offense. If I gave it, I apologize.
None taken, I promise! Â I just wanted to clarify.