Dead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones"

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 4, 2010 @07:55AM from the big-ocean-long-pig dept.

timothy writes "As places to study what happens to corpses, the Atlantic Ocean is both much larger and much more specialized than the famous 'body farm' in Knoxville, TN. But for all kinds of good reasons, sending human bodies into Davy Jones' locker just to see where they float and how they bloat is unpopular. Pigs don't pay taxes, and more importantly, they don't vote. So Canadian scientists have taken to using them as human-body proxies, to study what happens when creatures of similar size and hairlessness (aka, us) end up 86ed and in the drink."

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Change from the original plan by Chris+Mattern · 2010-03-04 08:06 · Score: 5, Funny

They were going to use dead puppies, until they found out they're not much fun.
1. Re:Change from the original plan by zepo1a · 2010-03-04 08:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I heard they were going to use dead cats, but the "101 Uses for a Dead Cat" publishing lobby vetoed that idea as changing the title of the book series to 102 would be too costly.