Well, I’ve been pretty busy with grant-writing and other stuff lately, so I’ve been neglecting my beloved blog. Here is a little sequel to my Animal Inside Out exhibit review, from my 2nd visit there, yesterday. I had previously missed the “3-headed camel” that is in one corner of the great hall (the Diplodocus one overlooked by Darwin). Because that is outside the special exhibit, there are no issues with taking photos, although I must apologize that as usual I just had my mobile phone’s camera. So here you go– a camel anatomy extravaganza. Too bad I didn’t do this on Hump Day…
(beefy reward at end for those who view all the pics)
Front view.
Side view.
Back right view. Naughty boy trying to grab the guts. It’s not a petting zoo, kid!
Back view. Kid nearly has snatched some precious entrails.
Front right view.
Cranial view of forelimb. Now I’m starting to get pretty interested in documenting the muscle anatomy for my own records. These AIO displays really do clearly show the myology.
Nice view of right triceps, latisssimus, carpal extensors/flexors, etc.
Guts, glorious guts! Beautifully sectioned stomach, showing “pseudoruminant” three-chambered structure and smaller compartments within.
Right hindlimb, rear/side view. Great view of semimembranosus/tendinosus, biceps femoris, superficial gluteal, tensor fasciae latae?
Left distal hindlimb, side view, emphasizing (toward bottom right) calcaneal “Achilles” tendon, and possibly a slip of the very reduced plantaris muscle? Also distal tendon of hamstrings prominently visible, with belly toward top of image (dark).
Left forelimb, showing elbow region with triceps/anconeus, more carpal flexors/extensors.
Great exhibit. No bullshit.
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John,
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Thanks Aldo! I always appreciate such feedback. And the blog has succeeded well beyond my expectations, so I am very happy about the recognition it has received already!
So they moved it into a corner…. when I was there it was smack in the middle of the big hall, under Dippy’s tail tip.
I was just about to make a similar remark to Heinrich, then I saw his comment… Well this gives me a good excuse to revisit. As though I needed one.
Naughty John, you surreptitiously took that picture of the bull!
John?
Sneaking a camera into the exhibit and actually USING it to take a photo where it is not allowed?
Never……. not John! 😉
🙂
But free advertisement for the exhibit; they can hardly complain! I’ve already convinced plenty of people to make the trip and pay the entrance fee.
You might have accidentally posted an invisible reply, John… >.<
Hmm reply vanished; odd. Anyway, hi there! Have a cow!
John,
my wicked mind has, I suspect, read yours, or it is pure chance,
but I’ve taken the liberty to post your bull in a special way…
http://deepdip.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/123-an-icon-for-the-occupy-wall-street-movement/
Thanks, I’m bullish on the OWS so I like the adoption of the icon, but at best I deserve credit just for the photo (if indeed I did take the photo, which I neither confirm nor deny 😉 ).
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The camel was tucked away, because it was busy (half term perhaps), and it gets in the way of the Dino Queue.
I was slightly dissapointed with the label as it talks about the hump(which isn’t dissected out) and not about the guts & muscles that you can see.
Ahh that is why it was tucked away, hmm. I agree, the label (or lack of hump dissection) is not ideal.