Comments on: Update on dissection and findings http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/09/update-on-dissection-and-findings/ Our place, our voices Thu, 23 May 2013 15:34:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: emmabest http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/09/update-on-dissection-and-findings/#comment-1464 Wed, 14 May 2008 01:57:40 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=465#comment-1464 kia ora America

that’s great to hear! The whale dissection was going to be so different from the colossal squid one – we were wondering how the blogs would be received.
We learnt so much in the four days working with the amazing collection of scientists Anton had gathered so it was so fun to share it on the blog.
The information from our little whale will continue to be gathered for quite a while yet.

]]> By: América http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/09/update-on-dissection-and-findings/#comment-1445 Sun, 11 May 2008 23:46:49 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=465#comment-1445 Hello,
I am journalist from Spain and I love your blogs. I was reading the past week the one of the colosal squid. But this one about the pigmy whale has fascinated me. Tomorrow I will record for the radio something about the disection.

congratulations ;)

]]> By: Anton http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/09/update-on-dissection-and-findings/#comment-1443 Sun, 11 May 2008 22:42:06 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=465#comment-1443 Hi Mark
This is Anton, the anatomy of this species of whale has some unique features that distinguishes from all other whales, and the more we dissected teh animal the more of these unique features were revealed. They are truly remarkable and I look froward to be able to do work like this again with such brilliant colleagues. We have preserved various organs so that they can be worked on in future, Dr Ewan Fordyce is likely to come back in the near future to continue working on the head of the animal. It has revealed all sorts of wonderful new data and also presented new questions for us to consider. That’s science!! :)

]]> By: Mark (Smivs) Smitheman http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/09/update-on-dissection-and-findings/#comment-1398 Fri, 09 May 2008 08:22:16 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=465#comment-1398 Thanks for bringing us the whale dissection. This was fascinating and I probably learnt more about whale anatomy from this than anything I’d seen before.
Presumably this is fairly standard anatomy accross all whale species.
The Squid was always going to be a hard act to follow, but you did it!
What is your next project? Please keep us posted. Thanks again, Smivs.

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