The biggest zoo in Wisconsin is not on public view. It il at the University of Wis*
consin in Modison and is used for educational and experimental purposes.
Scattered over the campus in laboratories, animal houses, borns and in classrooms,
are approximately 25,000 mammals and 18,000 fish, birds, amphibians ond reptiles.
In addition, the university has millions of insects all under control.
The zoo may expand greatly within a few hours with contributions of many litters of
guinea pigs, mice and rats. It also may shrink overnight with the extermination of a
million member strain of Drosophilia (fruit flies). Many of the university's zoo resi
dents are sacrificed for good causes. Many others, though, live out their lives in
comfort.
Picturod here are a few representatives from the university collection.
V- F IGHING IN. Will""* ' of L ?escort, N.Y., o rsseorch ass ? stent, weighs a chinchilla*
A CLOSe STUDTTResedrch'
jf assistant George Harvey
looks at laboratory*bred
cockroaches perched on
glass. Their leg muscles
are used in metabolic pro
cess studies.
CAN'T GET HIS GOAT.
Herdsman Glenis Bushor,
who works with a herd of
80 goats, is convinced they
are more intelligent than
other farm animals.
"CAREFUL!" Skunk held by Prof. Peter Morrison is
having temperature taken on a potentiometer in an experi
ment on animal's adaptability to cold weather.
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PLENTY ^OF QUILLS. Porcupines (the school hos 75),o re used
in study of pregnancy glands. Laboratory workers use quills for
pinning out tissues in solutions. Student is Abe Pansky.
PETTED CALF . Pretty Betty Fink, a senior agriculture student from Fremont, Wise.,
with one of the 266 calves born at the university in the last yeor,
This WrvV'i PICTURK SHOW-AP NtwtlN??rti.