2 rats just died in our lab experiment!

yeah, it wasn't meant to be!!! pris cried, jean didn't say a word, the rest were in shock, and i was so angry!!!

we had this physiology experiment to measure the amount of O2 taken in by the rat. there were 3 types of rats, normal one, hypothyroid one, and hyperthyroid one.

we got a hyperthyroid rat and placed him in a glass jar to conduct the experiment. being hyperthyriod, we expected him to use up alot of O2 , be hyperactive and sweat more.

but halfway thru the experiment, we noticed that he started to sweat a whole lot more and struggle like mad to get out of the jar. we knew something was wrong, so i rushed to a demonstrator and told her to come see the situation. "oh yeah he's fine. as long as the temperature does not exceed 33 degrees. " so we monitered the temp and the most it reached was 30 degrees. 4 mins later, the experiement finished and we had all our readings. jean went to weigh the rat, onli to find that it didn;t move at all!!

the rat was brought to the front table, the lecturer,(vet) performed CPR on him but he didn't wake still.... just then, another hyperthyriod rat came along, in the same situation as ours. the vet also tried to perform CPR to revive it but the 2 rats just died..

we had to stop the experiment and go to the lecture theatre to have a discussion as to what happend...

sigh.. the lecturer babbled on about how the test can be improved.. but at the end of it, he said "not sure why it turned out like that, perhaps coz we never had rats this big before"

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so it was their "mis-calculation" sigh.. sometimes i wonder whether they really know their stuff, or whether they really care.......