Warning: Blood and Guts

Once a year the Field Museum opens up its front doors, and its many back doors, to all museum members. This offers the museum's supporters an opportunity to see what "really goes on" behind the scenes. The staff is on hand to answer questions, explain what they do and how they do it, and give exclusive viewings of their many artifacts, specimens and samples. The grosser the better if you ask me. This year they dissected a bobcat (top photo, obviously) for all who could stomach the bloody mess and equally disturbing smell. They dissect animals who die of natural (or not so natural, in this case) causes. Unfortunately for this little kitty, he was hit by a car. I wish for the bobcat's sake that they had come up with a far nobler story to explain his untimely demise.