…from your ABC. Some rather gory snaps.

Bitten by science: When studying animals in the field results in a #fieldworkfail

Bubblecar said:

…from your ABC. Some rather gory snaps.

Bitten by science: When studying animals in the field results in a #fieldworkfail

> When you spend your life studying sharks, a crocodile encounter is not the first thing on your mind. … death roll … I didn’t wait to figure out if it was going to do something else, I said screw the safety stop, which is what you’re usually supposed to do when scuba diving, and I went straight up.

There are times when it’s a good idea to break the OH&S rules.

> He was positioning the snake to take a photo of it (don’t try that at home, he was doing it for a scientific photo)

Yeah, don’t try that at home.

> in the Grampians setting 50 small metal traps held together by pins to catch the native smoky mouse, when her fieldwork plans were unceremoniously hijacked. … some of them had been dismantled in the 15 minutes … for ravens to do it is pretty remarkable.

“Failure is always an option”, Mythbusters.