Dead Deer

I'm sorry to post this, but it just appeared on the Dilbert blog and ...I just have to. The story is actually from last November but this is the first I'm hearing about it. Again, I apologize in advance.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1116061deer1.html

Well, ya can't argue with the logic...I guess...

uh. gross.

Exceptionally. What would be the proper term for someone that likes to get busy with dead animals...? 'Necro' is in there, for sure...

Funny, he doesn't look like someone who suffers from necrobestiaphilia! :twisted:

Actually, I take that back. He totally does.

i can so beat that story:

behold "Necrophilia Among Ducks Ruffles Research Feathers". be sure to read all the way to the end for a really heartwarming story about squirrel, and also my favorite sentence in weeks:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,,1432991,00.html

not that this has anything to do with that, but
why is it called a necropsy when the subject is an animal, and
an autopsy when it's human?

(There is no punchline. I'm really asking. Either shish or Carn know the answer...)

sweet tea wrote: i can so beat that story:

I admire that can-do spirit . . .

pitu wrote: not that this has anything to do with that, but
why is it called a necropsy when the subject is an animal, and
an autopsy when it's human?

(There is no punchline. I'm really asking. Either shish or Carn know the answer...)

It's not vet vs. human. It's Brit vs. American.

Carnivore wrote: [quote=pitu]not that this has anything to do with that, but
why is it called a necropsy when the subject is an animal, and
an autopsy when it's human?

(There is no punchline. I'm really asking. Either shish or Carn know the answer...)

It's not vet vs. human. It's Brit vs. American.

for humans, you mean?
In the US, an animal autopsy is called necropsy, at least by large animal vets.

British large animal vets in the U.S.?

It beats having to do a shift at the Coop or paying out mucho bucks for organic venison at D'ags.

Carnivore wrote:
It's not vet vs. human. It's Brit vs. American.

I think "post mortem" is more usual in British English than *opsy.

doctorj wrote: [quote=Carnivore]
It's not vet vs. human. It's Brit vs. American.

I think "post mortem" is more usual in British English than *opsy.

I called in my animal expert . . .

shishkab wrote: in my opinion, it's really a matter of language, specifically Greek (which is what most medical terms come from). the term "necropsy" from the Greek means "study of the dead", and can be used for any exam (post-mortem). the term "autopsy", which is used exclusively in human medicine, comes from the Greek "self-study", i.e. the study of human remains.

many veterinary professionals (maybe human med people, too. i don't know many) feel that the need for separate terms has more to do with the moral/religious/aesthetic/whatever argument that humans are not animals. most of us don't like to think of ourselves in relation to mice or snakes or even monkeys, so we adopted the "self-study" term to separate ourselves from beasts.

hope that helps!

I can't believe that lawyer quoted Princess Bride!!!! Inconceivable!!!!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil: