Subject: learning bird biology
Date: Dec 13 16:44:23 1995
From: Steven Coles - scoles at zebu.serv.net


If someone must dissect a bird, any bird, why not take it up to ATL in
Bothell & do it with an L10-5 ultrasonic probe so the bird can fly away
afterwards. Then you can capture & "dissect" the bird as many times as
you want. You can track changes in the same bird's inards throughout the
seasons. Get heart & breathing rate from the same test (for whatever
that's worth from a frightened bird.) At least from an engineering point
of view a living bird has a much higher information content than a dead
one.

Steven S. Coles
Seattle, Washington State, U.S.A.
<scoles at zebu.serv.net>