I am so sorry if you're against animal dissections and got to see this post by accident.
For our Biological Techniques class (the class where we need to learn how to make our own slides...fixation, staining, mounting, etc.), the next set of slides that we need to make are animal tissue slides. Each of us in the class were assigned a different animal organ, either rat or frog. So that when our class had our dissection, everyone was just yelling, "Who needs the rat liver?..."Does anyone need anymore frog lungs?" hahaha. A few of my blockmates were so organized that they labeled pieces of plastic on the table and just dumped the retrieved organs on the corresponding labeled area.
I just have to say that despite the initial sadness that we felt for committing crimes to these little critters, their anatomies still make me go wow...especially dissecting them fresh. We've had semesters of dissecting preserved specimen and it just doesn't compare to dissecting fresh specimen. The colors are so vivid. Observe the bottom right photo of legless frog (legless because my friend needed the tendons and cut them off immediately), there is so much texture and color...the pink air-filled spongy lungs, the curling intestines, the tiny beating heart, the gross black chunky egg-filled ovaries...
I had to harvest frog ovaries. They're the big black globs on the photos. After a quick wash, the ovaries got dumped into a bottle of Bouin's Solution.
