Based on the details in this excerpt, the author would Read the excerpt from "Bone Detective," by Lorraine Jean Hopping most agree that Diane France is Diane stood in front of a miTOr and stuck out her generous and friendly. tongue. It looked like a rosy pink welcome mat to her O cautious and fearful delicate insides. Her usual rubber mold formula was out O unwise and hasty of the question too toxic. She wondered, What is safe to swallow, fast and easy to apply, and hardens quickly Ocurious and resourceful into a firm mold? One of her horse-riding pals, a veterinarian named Mary Wright, had the answer alginate. Mary told Diane that alginate was a pink gummy material used to make molds of teeth. If it was safe for pets, it should be safe for a tiger. And people, too, Diane thought