Emily is back at it again with Anna Goldman, mammal preparation lab manager, and special guest Hosenose. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thebrainscoop The Brain Scoop is written and hosted...
========== Hi, Anna Goldman!Hi, Emily! Hi, Brain Scoop!How's it going?Um, what are we doing today?Uh, we're gonna take Hosenose's clothes off.This anteater was born in Ecuador.Bob Tim, who was a curator in the mammal division here at the Field Museum,found Hosenose in a market for sale.He purchased Hosenose and was able to get him home.So Hosenose, uh, came back and then was eventually donated to the Fresno zoo in Californiawhere there was a contract that when Hosenose died,we would then get his body so we can prepare him for museum collectionand send him back to Ecuador.So the process of this is: we're gonna take his skin offand we're going to basically make what's called a case skin.And so the skin comes off, we're gonna s...