I don't usually leave messages on the blog, but something happened yesterday that I thought you'd all enjoy; I went to this marine mammal class at the Shedd, and for about four hours learned about how to artificially inseminate a pacific white-sided dolphin.

Kri and Tique, two females at the shedd, are currently pregnant, and the presentation was just to keep the volunteers apprized about how to evacuate guests when labor starts ('red alert') and how things work inside of the two ladies. ... The first calves will probably die, but the artificial insemination part was successful and is a really ground-breaking procedure (to do on this type of dolphin. You don't really want to know why it's difficult).

O, there were actually a couple of videos that would have been X-rated had people been doing them, i.e. Tique with a male, and the lengthy process by which sperm is collected from the male in Japan. ... ha. O, we also saw several really sad videos of miscarriages and calf-deaths. ...

In feb, I get to switch to the Marine Mammals dept. I am really excited (no pun intended).

So, how is everyone? Enjoying your classes? Done any of your applications? .. right. cya

posted by Adrian   [6:36 PM]

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