Indeed I appreciate nature and collect keepsakes from travels. In the moment, the phrasing of finding a skull while doing chores sounded a bit absurd (discovering an unknown skull would usually be alarming), and my comment was just meant to reflect the comedy of that absurdity.

I hadn’t considered the notion that you were genuine in curiosity, and that my note could be interpreted as mockery.

If you do find out the species, I would love to learn of it as well!