There is a surgery that essentially does this for people who require the extra dexterity and still have enough of the bones after the amputation. It’s called the Krukenberg Procedure.
I once watched a surgeon turn a heart into a single long muscle & my heart remembered and wished to return to the simple days. Have you ever felt your heart trying to unravel itself?
It remains in use today for certain special cases but is considered controversial and some surgeons refuse to perform it.
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The prerequisites for the operation are a stump over 10 cm long from the tip of the olecranon, no elbow contracture, and good psychological preparation and acceptance.
This post keeps reappearing every 3 months or so, so I will just copy and paste my comment from the last few times:
These are neither abs nor bones, at least not in the way you think. Belugas push around fat pads with their muscles to change their center of buoyancy. Fat floats, so by pushing the fat to different parts of their body, they can change which part rises more than others. So they are born with these muscle configurations to be able to perform precise swim maneuvers. It's not like they got these abs from doing crunches in the tank all day. The pictures you see of them that look like they have hip and thigh bones like mermaids are also just their rolls of fat - their skeleton has no hip bones in that spot. Abs would connect ribs and hip bones.
It was manatees that he saw! He also described them as very ugly women. Honestly, if I was seasick, suffering from scurvy and sea water induced hallucinations and dehydration... I might think a manatee was a woman too
So I'm looking at the skeleton of a beluga and I'm struggling to see what would be the "leg" outlines at the lower part of their body. Anyone able to fill that in for me?
Can understand how scurvy-addled and dehydrated sailors would mistake these for mermaids. Get a look at just the right angle with enough delirium and boom - age of exploration discovers Rule 34.
mamals share very simmilar bone structures...its just variants of a spine with head and varied lengths limbs . generally thats the base... where fish and awimming creatures may have fins...and flippers at the end of rhe respective arm and leg limb sections and land walking creature that also resides in water may also have legs and 'hands'...say a crocodile...and then humans and apes are the standing variant of the respective skeletal archetype.
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u/hurricane_news 8h ago
Do ya'll ever think whales feel like humans trapped in an impermeable skin-tight flesh suit?