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04-30-2005, 09:23 PM
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Bet you've never done this before...
Hope these pictures come up here ok. I work for the museum of natural history here and this is me and a few volunteers butchering a galapagos tortoise. They were there for a couple hours, between today and yesterday I was there 12. I'm in the green.
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I have a couple more but I'm having uploading issues... eh well, enjoy.
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04-30-2005, 09:24 PM
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Dear God I suck at this. Help?
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04-30-2005, 09:27 PM
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You can use the attachment manager to post them.
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Whats butchering mean.....
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04-30-2005, 09:31 PM
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Ok, how bout now? More pictures in my album.
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Well we just took all the meat and guts off of the bones. Now that that's done we feed it to flesh-eating beetles (dermestids) to get the bones nice and clean. Then we're going to put it back together and but it on display.
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04-30-2005, 09:37 PM
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Nope, never done that before...
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05-01-2005, 03:12 AM
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A friend of mine on another forum is in the process of doing this to 2 blue tongue skinks- one a baby, one full grown. I could never take part in this process, but I'm always fascinated by the results.
The whole beetle thing sounds almost Egyptian, but it's what she's doing too.
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05-01-2005, 03:28 AM
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These things are already dead right? 
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One thing I forgot to say:
THATS A FRIGGIN BIG TORTOISE!
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05-01-2005, 03:34 AM
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haha my 7th grade science teacher did that sort of thing
he had those type of beetles in a cage in the back of the classroom
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05-01-2005, 03:38 AM
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I surely hope that the tortise had died of natural causes and the museum aquired it frozen or somethinglike that. I would hate to think that it was killed so that it's bones could be displayed.
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05-01-2005, 04:40 AM
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Such an animal would never be destroyed by such an institution. But even in its death, it can continue to educate. I would guess that it is one of Zoo Atlanta's that died and was donated to UGA.
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Its good to know it was already dead. That was obvious but I had to know 
I hope it looks good when its finished.
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wow thats crazy. the biggest thing ive ever dissected is a frog. this reminds me of that episode of south park where the class accidentaly dissects a group of manatees that were supposed to go to an aquarium or something. Anyone ever see that one?
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It was property of Zoo Atlanta, but was living at San Diego Zoo. It was 42 years old, and died of internal bleeding due to ulcers. It weighed 190-something kilos. Imagine the cost of shipping it frozen! (I forgot to ask how much it cost)
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05-02-2005, 12:35 AM
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My repertoire of butchering so far consists of: 3 turkeys, 1 canadian goose, 1 deer, 1 galapagos tortoise. I've only been on the job since early march. I'd like to do some other herps, we have a couple bags full in the freezer, and I have my eye on a caiman and a copperhead or two...
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