Moving on

Yes, I took down the last post. Time to move on.

So, been pretty busy with classes lately and trying to keep myself busy. Today was Comparative Animal Wet Lab. They brought in a bunch of dead/decaying/half frozen birds and marine animals. We had a baby dolphin, a porpoise, a river otter, a beaver, couple swans, a few Canadian geese, a few hawks, a few owls, pigeons, wild turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, opossums... basically whatever was at the wildlife hospital and died. It was intensive anatomy, like the horses or dog, more like you cut it open and say "ooo, look at this." The marine animals looked like some gruesome murder scene after everything was dissected out. Some of the more memorable bits: woodpeckers store their tongues on the top of there heads so when you pluck off some feathers and pull its tongue out, you can see it move at the top of the head, neat;

beaver fingers look just like small human fingers, only webbed; the dolphin brain is larger and more convoluted then the horse, ruminant, and dog brain; the upswing of birds wings is the action of pectoral muscles, not back muscles like you might think; owls have really big ear holes; turkey pectoral muscles look just like the meat you by in the store.

Baby horses tomorrow!