My favorite is definitely that poor hedgehog, LOL
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Mine are the snake and the taped bird
The dolphin sent me.
They really just folded that snake up
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Stopped asking those pesky questions now didn't it?
Stopped asking those pesky questions about what?!?
Grapes
Pretty sure that's a goose, not a duck
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Do we also get a thread of pictures of animals getting CT scans with their consent?
Somehow I don’t think the fish consented to this..
Thanks for sharing. How does the fish one work? The dolphin I get because it breathes oxygen, but don’t all fish have gills? I feel like it should be in the water.
It can be out for a matter of minutes.
Humans are just ludicrously overdependent on aerobic respiration, our brain metabolism is overcharged to the point of being broken.
Most other animals have a lot more room to function sans oxygen, they're more limited by stored energy reserves.
I’m in a yoga teacher training at the moment, and a biologist by background. It’s been amazing seeing how the different yogic breathing techniques impact mental and physical states.
Those crazy folks in the Indus valley civilization made a serious study of this, at least 4,000 years ago according to current evidence. Some techniques, like yoga nidra (alternate nostril breathing for several minutes) have significant impacts on nervous system function.
You can measure this directly with a cheap heart rate monitor and an app that can interpret and returns stats on heart rate variability.
Those old yogis made a study out of exploiting our brain’s dependence on oxygen and developed some pretty cool biohacks.
Does
alternate nostril breathing
mean holding lefty closed with your finger for a few minutes then righty, or does it mean back and forth… surely you can’t do this without manual intervention, right?
Yes that’s the method. It’s improperly called yoga nidra, but the correct term for the method is Nadi Shodhana Pranayama.
I’m not exactly sure what you mean. You describe the method that is used. One holds their own hand to the face with the nose between thumb and index finger. On alternate breath cycles, you direct the breath through alternating sides.
Did I understand your question correctly?
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You're supposed to hold your breath for a CT, so the fish is just fine for a bit.
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Are we the bad guys?
If you need to ask...
The hamster burritos got me good.
A fucking rhino!?
How many people did it take to get him on the gurney?
I’m guessing they would have some sort of overhead crane to do the heavy lifting
The snake got me laughing. They just folded it onto itself.
What don't Samsung make?
Good phones 🙄
I wouldn’t want to be the one to have to intubate those animals.
Actually most of them (according to a friend who works for a large animal hospital and has some human EMS background) are intubated far easier than humans - and they place a "hand safer" device (if you're old enough to remember the "plastic screw device"-I don't actually remember the actual name- used to open a seizure patients jaw that were once used, they are similar).
Back in my training day we used cats to practice neonatal intubation.
I actually would love to be the one to intubate them!
Why couldn't that bird get a sleeping bag like the hamster did? Seems a bit drastic taping it down by the neck
The bird is for a normal x-ray. Here's the context.
CT scans take much longer, but an x-ray is just a few seconds. I think it's just a practical way to get the bird in place for a quick x-ray, and by practical I mean the vet techs minimize their (very real) risk of being murdered.
hehe
Random mirror linker btw:
https://farside.link/https://www.reddit.com/r/VetTech/comments/1ge3kh0/modern_art
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There's definitely two kinds
- Ima napping
- You think this is funny? This cell won't hold me forever. And once I'm free, you will all regret it