• Question: Do you harm animals in your work?

    Asked by tbonesteak to Alexandra, Dean, Jess, Luisa, Sian on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by erikajas.
    • Photo: Sian Foch-Gatrell

      Sian Foch-Gatrell answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      No. Unless you include humans as animals… sometimes I want to hurt my colleague haha, just kidding!

    • Photo: Luisa Ostertag

      Luisa Ostertag answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      No, I don’t.

    • Photo: Alexandra Kamins

      Alexandra Kamins answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I haven’t personally yet, but other people in my lab take about a teaspoon of blood of different bats that they capture in Ghana. We try to let them all go back into the wild as soon as we are done with them, so they don’t suffer any more than a jab to the wing. However, occasionally one gets hurt in the capture net, and we have to euthanize him.

    • Photo: Dean Whittaker

      Dean Whittaker answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I swat a couple of flies now and then but other than that – no.

    • Photo: Jessica Housden

      Jessica Housden answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I don’t work with animals in my work.

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