2013.04.16

Busy Saturday — Part I — Vet School Open House

Saturday morning, we went to Cornell for the annual Vet School Open House. Daddy insisted that he attended this event before but I am almost sure that this is his first time.

We first came to the pathology room.

There are numerous exhibits on diseases and specimen from animals.

Here comes the most interesting table — real specimen freshly harvested.

This is a piece of lung from a horse.

The black spots represent the illness the horse was carrying.

Yes, these are the fats from the organ.

These are the blood vessels.

This was a dear head sliced in half. Flies flew into the nostril and laid eggs. These eggs then turn into larva and became parasite. If the larva become a cluster, the host could die from hard of breathing.

Did you see the larva from nostril?

You should be able to se that now.

This is a heart from a cow.

The yellow objects you see are actually parasite. Yes, these are worms.

This is an unborn fetus of a cat.

We then moved to see large animals.

What is so special about this cow?

It’s stomach was surgically installed with a cap with a lid. The purpose of that is to research what is inside of the stomach. There are 4 cows at Cornell for this research purpose.

You not only can smell that up close and personal, you can also see the heat radiate from the hole. It is from the high body temperature the cow carries.

You also get to see what comes out of the stomach under microscope.

Taking a family photo!!

We then visited the radiation room. Mimi tried to take an ultrosound for a dog.

We then moved to Wild Life room.

This is the skeleton of an ostrich.

For some reasons, I thought this one looks a bit like daddy.

Here is a turkey vulture, not in a good mood.

Isn’t she cute? This was donated to Cornell University. The previous owner used her as a breeding bird. When she got older and couldn’t lay more eggs, she was donated for research purpose.