One of our most experienced members, Sato-san, posing with the first rat of the semester. The green mat is heated to ca 37 degrees Celsius, to keep the rat warm. The rat is alive and breathing, but has been injected with an anaesthesia. The lamp also helps keep the temperature up, but when we open up the rat it unfortunately also causes the normally wet body tissue to dry.. so we soak it in water (with a little bit of salt, just like the normal body fluids). The rat's limbs are secured with tape, so it doesn't slip. Look at that big smile! She really loves what she does! For mankind! Yeey!
