Youths get front row look at deer necropsy

[The Straight Story]

Youths get front row look at deer necropsy


EVANSVILLE, Wis., Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin middle school teacher said his seventh-grade students witnessed a deer dissection to help teach them about the state's official wild animal.

Bruce Curtis, a teacher at McKenna Middle School in Evansville, said only a few students decided not to attend the optional necropsy, which was performed by his father, Hugh Curtis, retired director of outdoor education for the Wausau School District's School Forest nature area, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Monday.

Curtis and his father said the lesson teaches students about deer as well as giving them the opportunity to view organs similar to those found in humans.

"It's an ad lib project because when you open up that animal, you never know what you are going to find," Hugh Curtis said.

The project received overall positive reviews from the students.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/14/Youths-get-front-row-look-at-deer-necropsy/UPI-56391260824180/

[Craftsman]

1. So I have process many deer, after I have shot them

Bambi the other red meat!!!

[sharp_stick]

2. It would have been interesting if autolysis had set in

When I was in med school a friend who was a large animal vet asked me to help out with a horse necropsy. It was mid-summer and the horse had been found dead in a pasture.

Once things are seen they can't be unseen and that experience taught me that once some things are smelled they can't be unsmelled. I still haven't forgiven him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autolysis_(biology)

[SacredCow]

3. Growing up on a small farm, and working summers at a vet clinic....

Ummm... Yeah. What you said, times a gazillion!

[TheMightyFavog]

4. Nothing unusual about this...

We watched the disection of a large Northern Pike in 7th Grade.

[guitar man]

5. I watched a c-section on a cow

I think I was in about 3rd grade. We had a cow down having a hard time calving and Dad called the vet. I started up the hill when it was about time for the school bus to come and Dad asked me to stay and watch, he figured I might learn a little more than I would in school that day. Turns out he was right, it was very interesting. Unfortunately the calf didn't make it.....