Animal autopsy programme coming up on Channel 4
I've been waiting to see this for months now, so I hope it's good.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 20:56, 10 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

I noticed you like this stuff...Alot
you planing to be a surgeon yourself
(smathels left-wing not feckin' chicken wing, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 21:25, Reply)

No, I'm a vet nurse. I have no desire to be a vet.

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:00, Reply)

Oooohhh
That just finished. I liked it! Bizzare seeing how much guts elephants pack in there. And the lung thing was kinda weird.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:06, Reply)

Well we've all got guts tightly packed in there, but those were fucking huuuuuuuge
I never considered how big the caecum would be, although it's obvious if you think about it because they're herbivores, so it'd need to be large to process all the greenery.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:11, Reply)

Yeah, that's fascinating that bit
As far as I could pick up, it basicaly ferments the plant material to break it down and squeeze more nutrition out of it right? Which explains the massive quantities of methane. That bit didn't look pleasent!
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:15, Reply)

Yup, that's right.
I bet the students were glad they were behind the glass then. They were all talking about it on the bus a couple of months back when they were filming it as they filmed it at my college. Wish i'd been able to see it, but it was for vet students only.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:23, Reply)

Oh, that's a shame.
Mind you, I guess that if you where there you'd have to have dealt with the smell and sights and such. And I guess they don't often get an elephant to carve up, so it was probably only open to vet students because of the rareness of the oppurtunity and they figured that vet students would be a lot less likely to get queasy and throw up while the camera was on them or something.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:29, Reply)

Well we have cows and other smelly beasts on site and they rather smell, so yeah we're used to it
Funnily enough, it tends to be vet students who throw up or faint when they're on placement, rather than work experience or new nurses.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:31, Reply)

Huh. I wonder how many doctors throw up or pass out on their first dissections or whatever?
Seems a shame not to open up tickets to interested parties though. I kind of liked the live footage they had with it. I was just thinking, these things weigh 12 tonne and can run up to 20mph. I am NEVER pissing off an elephant!

Next week looks like a humpback whale or some form of whale. Should be even bigger!
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:39, Reply)

Well it's quite different cutting up a dead animal to a live one as everything's moving and juices spilling and stuff
their first dissections would be on dead things, so I'd imagine not that many. I'd study to be a vet if I could just do surgical stuff, but that wont happen, so I'm happy being a nurse instead as we get to do quite a lot of surgical procedures.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:42, Reply)