AVM @ Tufts

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Day 3, April 19

Today we had Introduction to Anatomy in the Anatomy Building (Big surprise there). In this class we looked at previously dissected cadavers (a horse's head, a cat, and a dog), and we learned the various organs in each animals body. Surprisingly enough, all mammals' organs have the same basic structure and layout.

After we had thoroughly explored each cadaver/corpse/dead animal we went back to the hall where we meet in the morning to watch a video called "Wolves at Our Door", about a team of people who watched a pack of wolves to learn more about their social lives and to prove that they aren't really vicious towards humans. It turns out that wolves are more scared of humans than we are of them. Also humans have killed about 2 million wolves, and wolves have killed none of us.

After the movie we went to the library to finish work on our projects for another hour. After all the groups finished work on their project presentations we went to the cafeteria to have lunch, after which have a lecture on being a veterinarian and how to get into vet school and stuff like that.

After the lecture we had another about Infectious Disease. We learned about various bacteria and what they do, and that for every human cell there are 2 bacteria. About half way through the class we had a Jeopardy game. I got all my questions right, and my team won the game.

After the game and class were over we went to the sheep barn to learn about taking care of sheep. We learned how to catch and tip a sheep (not with money). One of the lambs had a "parrot jaw", or an over-shot top jaw like a parrot's beck, and it had to be bottle fed because it couldn't nurse off its' mother. Tommorrow we are going on a field trip to Appleton Farms and Wolf Hollow in Ipswitch. Byes.

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