tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post627617174212190607..comments2024-01-05T05:02:20.353+00:00Comments on CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: THE CASE OF THE FURRY TROUTUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-26627575748790761812009-04-03T21:44:00.000+01:002009-04-03T21:44:00.000+01:00I will have some information on the blog next Mond...I will have some information on the blog next Monday on a furry,well hairy fish! Watch this space! Richard MuirheadRichard Muirheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06112194689811264581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-88845608617915891712009-04-03T17:55:00.000+01:002009-04-03T17:55:00.000+01:00Years and years ago, I was a PhD student at Aberys...Years and years ago, I was a PhD student at Aberystwyth University. To earn a little extra cash, I often did demonstrating work; effectively teaching assistance for lecturers teaching undergrads. One such lecture was the Teleost Diversity demonstration, given by a Dr John Fish.<BR/><BR/>Now, mooching around a lab full of specimens of fish is not at the best of times interesting (and for the demonstrators it was money for doing extremely little save referring students to the library), so Dr Fish spiced things up a little bit.<BR/><BR/>He introduced a ringer into the demo.<BR/><BR/>Heinkel's Arctic Trout, a highly unusual advanced teleost which lives in seasonally freezing freshwater ponds in the high arctic and as a way of keeping warm has a coat of fur.<BR/><BR/>The students were informed of the ringer's existence, but not where it was and we the demonstrators were specifically told not to let the students know, since extra points would be awarded for detecting the hoax. <BR/><BR/>Out of the undergrads I supervised, I would say that about 99% of them failed to spot it. Of the mature students in the classes, pretty much all of them sussed which specimen was the fake and all found it most amusing (as did we demonstrators, for that matter).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-71285894701403249172009-04-03T17:17:00.000+01:002009-04-03T17:17:00.000+01:00Do you remember our exhibition about the "Dah...Do you remember our exhibition about the "Dahu". I called it "Derry" for an article in A&M?<BR/>I made a very nice looking furry trout for that one. I think I must have photos at work (and the original thing too). I'll try and remember to send it to you.<BR/><BR/>And yes, we had lots of people believing such stuff. And the curator got insulted once or twice by people who were fooled.dragonladychhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04388676720313631946noreply@blogger.com