Thursday, I got to perform a postmortem of a bird. I removed the brain, heart, liver, kidneys, stomach contents, flight muscles, and feet bones and muscles in order to do pesticide analysis and heavy metal analysis. From my career as a biology major, I've had plenty of experience with dissections, so this was no problem for me. The only hard part was opening the skull to get at the brains (some of the brains leaked through the nose--oops!). We weighed the organ samples and then placed them in the freezer for later analysis.
Measuring... (please note the sexy orange gloves and SARS mask)
Weighing...
Taking out the brains...
Post-post-mortem:
Weighing the organs...
P.S. I didn't get bird flu.
P.P.S. If you are in the Lugoff area, please check out the
this information about my lost doggie. Thanks.
Weighing...
Post-post-mortem:
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