Being a rehab center, there where unfortunately some animals that did not make it.
If they died from unknown causes or if the animal was something new to the rehab I often did "post mortems" on the animal to learn or to try figure out what was wrong.
With the green sea turtle the disection was to learn the basic anatomical structure so if we needed to tube feed again we could see where to look and what structures to look for. Also if gasses got traped in the shell how and from where to remove them.
I also taught some of the other staff basic anatomy, so they could learn what is what and where it all lies.
Even if they never really took it seriously.
There was still mischief to be had even when dissecting a seal
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