Doesn’t sound icky. I would assume they used it for science. I’m surprised they burn them.
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w3dd1e@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I have direct experience with this.
In college, I got a job on campus in their Environment, Health, and Safety department. Mostly, I just calibrated fume hoods in labs.
During my time there, a hippo at a nearby zoo passed away. I don’t want to be too specific because it can be a bit icky, but they essentially shipped it to us to incinerate.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Dragonstaff@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
Honestly, we probably know everything we could learn from a dead hippo carcass.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
What a phone call that must have been. I’m amazed that a college would have a big enough incenerator!
marquisalex@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
I doubt that the incinerator was big enough, and that’s what the “icky specifics” covers…
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Bingo.
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It is a large Division 1 university. I don’t know exactly how big the incinerator is. Thankfully I wasn’t the one who handled that particular task.
I assume it comes down to our hazmat clearances, though. Just a guess.