Yesterday, I slid on the exploded guts of a slug on the sidewalk. Sooner or later, I shall know what those squishy bits are on the bottom of my shoe
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What worm shall you dissect? Nematode? Platyhelminth? Annelid? Beware the roundworms. Inside, all you'll see are tubes. Really long, pale tubes.
And yes, it does feel rather weird eating something once you've studied its parts. I remember one morning I was eating fish for breakfast and at first glance it looked like the fish was on a dissecting pan and I held scalpels and tweezers in my hands instead of utensils. Basta. It looked like a specimen, not a meal.
By not readily available you mean it's a chore to obtain them from an unfortunate schmuck's intestines? Or that your lab doesn't have them?
The best place to get nice, fresh and squirming Ascaris worms: visit a slaughterhouse. Or at least that's what my bio prof did for her masters. And because of that project, there's now a jar in our lab that contains a 6-inch long section of horse intestine, with several large pale worms hanging out of the open ends, as if they were trying to swim out and that moment was suspended in time. Not pretty.
Either and/or both, I guess. And "eww" to the latter paragraph. Haha!
I wish I shared your love for Zoology, but I'm more of a physics girl. I have a shoddy memory when it comes to memorization of terms and classes... Which explains my grades in the said subject. Eep.
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here's to hoping that our lab teacher thinks that it's not ethical to dissect creatures and thus would not have us cut up the poor cretins...
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What worm shall you dissect? Nematode? Platyhelminth? Annelid? Beware the roundworms. Inside, all you'll see are tubes. Really long, pale tubes.
And yes, it does feel rather weird eating something once you've studied its parts. I remember one morning I was eating fish for breakfast and at first glance it looked like the fish was on a dissecting pan and I held scalpels and tweezers in my hands instead of utensils. Basta. It looked like a specimen, not a meal.
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The two other phylums, Nematode and Platyhelminth, are uber revolting. 'Sides, I don't think they're readily available, are they?
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The best place to get nice, fresh and squirming Ascaris worms: visit a slaughterhouse. Or at least that's what my bio prof did for her masters. And because of that project, there's now a jar in our lab that contains a 6-inch long section of horse intestine, with several large pale worms hanging out of the open ends, as if they were trying to swim out and that moment was suspended in time. Not pretty.
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I wish I shared your love for Zoology, but I'm more of a physics girl. I have a shoddy memory when it comes to memorization of terms and classes... Which explains my grades in the said subject. Eep.
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