Comments on: Update from scientists-rib structure http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/08/update-from-scientists-rib-structure/ Our place, our voices Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:57:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: sandrar http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/08/update-from-scientists-rib-structure/#comment-5145 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:56:37 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-5145 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> By: janekeig http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/08/update-from-scientists-rib-structure/#comment-3169 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:32:58 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-3169 Te Papa is dedicated to non-lethal research of whales. For instance this specimen died after stranding on a New Zealand beach. Check out the earlier blog posts for more detail.

Cheers Jane

]]> By: chris http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/08/update-from-scientists-rib-structure/#comment-3168 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:20:03 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-3168 yes im sure there is some most interesting things that this whales body does or shall I say used to do!!!!!!! stop murdering whales

]]> By: jb http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/08/update-from-scientists-rib-structure/#comment-3167 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:45:09 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-3167 stop murderng whales please

]]> By: Tamojit Ghosh http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/08/update-from-scientists-rib-structure/#comment-2540 Thu, 29 May 2008 11:47:05 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-2540 Where will the pygmy whale viscera from this specimen be eventually preserved ? I was going to ask something on the whales serrati muscles but I wait to read what you publish. Humans have 8 digitations on the Serratus Anterior just wondered how many the pygmy whale had …

]]> By: Anton van Helden http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/08/update-from-scientists-rib-structure/#comment-2535 Wed, 28 May 2008 21:04:55 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-2535 Dear Tamojit

The arrangement of the musculature is one of the things we will be publishing on in due course, particualrly the arrangement of muscles to the flattened ribs. There are plenty of strange features of this species that will be covered in future reports and papers. Thank you for your interest and sorry this may seem vague, but we are working through this material now.

Yours sincerely

Anton

]]> By: Tamojit http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/08/update-from-scientists-rib-structure/#comment-2514 Tue, 27 May 2008 21:15:46 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-2514 I presume that the pgymy right whale does have 3 layers of body wall muscles. Does this whale have internal and external intercostalis muscles like humans? Were they there in the flattened expanded portion of the lower ribs with any strange features? The ribs and these 2 muscles groups both rise from the same layer of body wall muscle (middle layer).

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