• Question: what is your favourite animal to study

    Asked by thaw520paps on 24 Sep 2024. This question was also asked by maun520paps, wasp520paps, cast520paps, runs520paps, Blessing:).
    • Photo: Camilla Cassidy

      Camilla Cassidy answered on 26 Sep 2024:

      I worked with marine worms, snails, brittle stars (like little star fish) and tiny clams. I thought the clams were honestly really cute, how they’d open and close for food! I didn’t like the snails. They kept climbing out of my tanks!

    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 18 Nov 2024:

      Humans: they say the funniest things!

    • Photo: Rachel Edwards

      Rachel Edwards answered on 2 Dec 2024:

      I’m a physicist so we don’t really do animal research – but we can be inspired by animals! I do ultrasound measurements, and love finding out about how bats use ultrasound to catch their prey.

    • Photo: Erin Pallott

      Erin Pallott answered on 4 Dec 2024:

      I work on parasitic worms, which are animals! Nematodes are the most abundant animal on Earth, making up around 80% of all individual animal life.

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  • Photo: charlottemaughanjones

    charlottemaughanjones commented on :

    As a vet i worked with horses, and they are always my favourite animals, although they have some super weird evolutionary issues – look up the “recurrent laryngeal nerve” to see how daft horse anatomy is! They aren’t the best designed animals that’s for sure. My research since leaving veterinary practice has also used horses. I am a big advocate for the “one health principle” which means that animal, human and environmental health are interlinked, so by learning about one, you can make a difference in all areas. At the moment i am working with fruit flies…..quite a lot different to horses!