Melibe leonina
Armina california
Tritonia diomedea
These are some of the animals who live in our sea trays and who serve as our assortment of available animals for research purposes. These are who we admire and observe, and design projects around when deciding what part of the nervous system to investigate next. It's hard to believe that decent people can make a conscious decision to cut open these very beautiful creatures for a living, especially considering how incredibly unusual these animals are and how rare they are normally seen by the average person in nature. It's also true that when other scientists come into our lab, many of them grimace when they learn that our animals are destined to die under our microscopes. But in our defense and in the slugs honour, it's also true that practically everything that people understand about neurobiology and nervous systems, has to do with the research that is performed on these invertebrate animals. I think it's something to consider.
Triopha catalinae and Doris montereyensis
Janolus fucus
Dendronotus dalli
Triopha catalinae and Dendronotus dalli
2 comments:
Beautiful animals, aren't they. You have photos of a couple I've not seen before.
oh... well you should come down to lab 2 and see them for real. they are even more incredible in slug.
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