Apr 25, 2005

Harmonics from Under the Stairs

Harmonics from Under the Stairs


This is the Djungarian Hamster, a cute little seasonal dimorph indigenous to the steppes of Mongolia, Russia, and Western Siberia. Here at IUB, the animal unit used by the biologists has a mind globbigingly large hamster colony full of these creatures, and each 2nd semester the bio lab unit has unsuspecting undergrads explore their estrous cycle with micropipettes. What you say? That means probing female hamsters with pippettes that are about 2.5 times larger than they are?

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