Fishes: In and Out

      Another day in BI158L (lab), this time we had to dissect and study the anatomy of a fish. The specimen we did was a emperor fish I think. The smell was not as bad as when I had to dissect a cat probably because there was no chloroform or other chemicals. We had to be careful with this one because it had spines along the fins, almost got pricked by one. It was really messy but fun, looking at the different parts of the fish and knowing if you got a male or female specimen (we had a female). We even had to pick out a scale and look at it under a dissection microscope to label the parts of it. The hardest part was cracking open the skull to look at the brain and parts. There was some delays along the way but we learned and went on smoothly.