[lit-ideas] Fear Terrible Jobs in the Sciences
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:27:40 -0500
Such as
10. Orangutan-Pee Collector
Their work is noninvasive—for the apes, that is . . .
"Have I been pissed on? Yes," says anthropologist Cheryl Knott of
Harvard University. Knott is a pioneer of "noninvasive monitoring
of steroids through urine sampling." Translation: Look out below!
For the past 11 years, Knott and her colleagues have trekked into
Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo, Indonesia, in search of
the endangered primates. Once a subject is spotted, they deploy
plastic sheets like a firemen's rescue trampoline and wait for
the tree-swinging apes to go see a man about a mule. For more
pee-catching precision, they attach bags to poles and follow
beneath the animals. "It's kind of gross when you get hit, but
this is the best way to figure out what's going on in their
bodies," Knott says.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/806ffb24a5f27010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
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