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Published online 2 April 2008 | Nature 452, 525-526 (2008) | doi:10.1038/452525a
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Anatomy: Truly gross anatomy
Sometimes it is necessary to immerse yourself in a subject. Erik Vance meets a woman whose research takes her deep — waist-deep — into cetacean anatomy.
If you work as a toll collector at the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City, you might think you've seen it all. Until the day a woman drives past your booth with a dead dolphin stuffed in her hatchback.
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"She has dissected more than 140 cetaceans of various sizes, representing 19 different genera." This highlights the ridiculous arguments posed by Japan about the neccessity of killing whales for "scientific" research.