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Journal club seminars are rekking me ok

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Study space

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DUDE. (Yes, I know not to take this website seriously. Still fun.)

Writer friends, I discovered a fun website today. It’s called “I Write Like” and here’s the description: Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers.  Let me know which autor you got! 

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I almost want to make one of those Spotify ASMR accounts just so I can upload a recording called “the sound of four baby squirrels fidgeting in their hammock.”

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There’s something about parasitic worms that just ruins the aesthetic for me idk

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New pens!

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Fan theory: the rabbit from monty python + the holy grail was actually an amelanistic eastern fox squirrel

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Squirreldopting

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*I hope you don’t mind me jumping in to elaborate on this?*

Hey! Quick (okay, really long) addition from somebody who wants to do wildlife health related things for a living.

There are times when it’s good to rescue wildlife and times when it’s a bad idea. While I certainly don’t recommend prying a hawk’s meal out of its talons -- seriously, never do this -- I also don’t recommend putting the thing your cat caught into a bush so it can become food for other wildlife. That animal gets to hobble around in pain for a week before microbes from the cat’s saliva finish the job.

In general, if you see an animal that’s CLEARLY and OBVIOUSLY dying (and no predator is present), I actually would recommend bringing it into a wildlife center and/or calling animal control for these reasons:

- Many predators are nocturnal and may refuse to eat something that’s clearly been dead for a while. Plus, it would likely take a predator some time to find the injured/dead animal. Leaving the squirrel you hit with your car on the ground until it exsanguinates just isn’t humane. Your car isn’t that animal’s natural predator, and taking that animal to a rehabilitator won’t deprive your vehicle of a meal. A wildlife center may or may not be able to save that squirrel, but they can certainly provide euthanasia, which is a more humane alternative.

- Not everything that you think is wild is really wild. There’s a chance that the “wild bird” that hit your window is somebody’s pet, and it’s owner would probably really like to know what happened to it. Wildlife hospitals admit a couple injured/escaped exotic pets mistaken for wild counterparts every year.

- In urban areas, not every animal that could be eaten should be. A rat stumbling around and bleeding from orifices shouldn’t enter the food chain. That’s how vultures end up testing positive for rodenticides.

- Even if the animal doesn’t survive in the long run, that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth it to bring it to a wildlife center. The hospital may find a use for it. Some centers will feed out patients that don’t make it (so long as poisoning isn’t suspected and the animal wasn’t given certain medications). This can help orphans at the hospital learn to recognize their natural food source. Another possibility is that the carcass could be used for research, as many researchers collect carcasses from wildlife hospitals for their studies. If the animal is somewhat uncommon, it may sent to a museum collection and used for educational purposes. Finally, staff at the center may necropsy the animal to teach others about its anatomy and physiology, which can improve quality of care for patients of the same species.

That said, when it comes to baby animals, it’s incredibly common for people to “save” animals that don’t need saving!

Since baby season is starting up, here are some great resources from a California wildlife hospital:

http://wc.convio.net/site/DocServer/Found_a_Bird_revised.pdf?docID=2501

https://www.discoverwildcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Found_a_baby_mammal.pdf Still have questions? Here’s a page on what to do if you’ve found an animal from Tufts Wildlife Clinic! This page has a simple quiz you can take to find out what to do with the animal!

https://wildlife.tufts.edu/found-wildlife/

If you ever do find an animal that you think may be injured or orphaned, please contact your nearest licensed wildlife rehabilitator before you act! Many centers have help lines for you to call!

honestly, just stop trying to rescue almost-dead wildlife in general. you’re just depriving other wildlife of a meal.

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Updated with Lec 2 lmao.

I will use this in life literally never, but at least I can force it to be aesthetically pleasing

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Holy shit my professor talks so fast

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First week of class!

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Shit you hear while trying to get hours for vet school apps in the far off future

“Wow, it’s really quiet today.”

“DON’T SAY THE Q-WORD. YOU’LL JINX IT.”

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“Get in here and look at these rads. See that foreign body? What do you think that is? They’re doing surgery on him now, and we’re taking bets.”

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“Why is that bat’s penis so large?”

*in a terrible French accent* “He says merci, madame! Honhonhon!”

“No actually, it’s giant.”

“Honhonhon. He appreciates the compliment!”

“I think it might be broken. How do I even put that in a record?”

“Injury to penis?”

“I’m going with penile trauma lol.”

***a while later***

“So it’s possible for an animal to break its penis?”

“OF COURSE! I once treated a dog who did just that by jumping out of a shopping cart.”

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Doc finishes endoscopic foreign body retrieval, holding foreign body up for everyone on the floor to see. Yells to the other doc on the floor:

“Hey, did you lose a tampon?”

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“Wow, that raccoon is really mean!”

“Yeah. I call him butthead.”

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Striped skunk: Be gone, intruder! Fear my stompy feet and raised tail

Spotted skunk: U WANT A PIECE OF ME? LET’S GO DANCE BATTLE RN U LIL BITCH