- You need to make an incision and remove the whole internal body cavity,

- 插棍子的鳥！ - 這是怎麼保存的啊？

which is all just one big enclosed unit.

你得先做個切口，再從體腔移除所有內臟，

It's got this great connective tissue.

體腔基本上就是一大個包包。

It's like taking a sock off of your foot.

它有一種結締組織。

'Cause you invert the whole skin up until the skull,

所以就像是脫襪子一樣。

crack the skull in half,

你得把外皮整個翻到頭顱上面，

remove the brain with a very sophisticated tool called a brain scoop,

把腦殼敲開成兩半，

revert the skin,

用一種叫做「腦匙」的非常複雜的工具挖掉腦漿，

stuff it with cotton, put some wire in it,

再翻回外皮，

stick the stick in it, and um, that's about it.

塞進棉花，裡面加一些鐵絲幫忙定型，

The ones dating before the 1960s were preserved with arsenic as well.

插根棍子進去，嗯，差不多就這樣啦。

- 78. So we're good.

1960 年代前保存的也有用到砷的。

- You still might wanna wash your hands before you go to lunch.

- '78 年。所以這個還好。

You know what this is?

- 你可能還是得先洗個手才能吃午餐。

- That is a vertebrae...?

你知道這是什麼嗎？

- Yes.

- 是脊椎嗎？

- Of a very large thing.

- 是的。

Is it a cetacean?

- 很大一隻動物。

- Yeah! I don't know the exact one it's some kind of porpoise,

是鯨類嗎？

but it's the entire cervical vertebrae column

- 耶！我不確定是哪一種，不過這是某種海豚，

So it's like, this is, you know, - Oh, so it's all, yeah.

這是個完整的頸椎

I showed you the human one, it was pretty... - Oh, so it's all, yeah.

所以這像是...就是...你知道的... - 哦，所以這一整個就是全部了，好吧。

But they're all compacted together, these are all different, separate bones.

我之前給你看過人類的頸椎，它相當...

They don't need to have a lot of mobility side to side of their head.

這些全部都融合再一起了，它們其實是不同部份的骨頭合再一起的。

You can take a skin and you have it all the way until it's just attached by the nose

牠們不太需要能夠左右擺頭的能力。

It's really weird to see this, like, weird skeletal thing

你可以把整張皮一直剝到鼻子這裡

and I mean I'm just skinning a mink today, so maybe you can see that.

看起來很奇怪，像是某種骷顱頭怪物

Like, why do mustelids and, uh, members of the skunk family get nematodes?

我是說我今天才剝了一隻貂，也許你們可以看看。

This is a sign of a nematode infection.

為什麼貂科動物，像是臭鼬，會被線蟲寄生？

So a nematode is a parasite that comes in through the sinuses

這是被線蟲感染的徵候。

and it makes these lesions on the brain.

線蟲是一種由鼻竇入侵的寄生蟲

And I imagine it does not feel very good.

牠會造成腦部病變。

- It's a really interesting smell coming out of this.

我可以想像這一定很不舒服。

- It's not just the skunk smell, it's probably like preservation tissue

- 這裡飄來一種有意思的味道。

and the fact that you're in a museum with 21,000 dead things.

- 這不光是臭鼬的味道啦，比較有可能是器官組織防腐的結果

- It's a little musty.

何況你現在所在的博物館裡有兩萬一千件死翹翹的東西。

- It's not a terrible smell.

- 有點霉臭味。

- It's like your grandma's attic. - It's just really interesting.

- 不是很可怕的氣味。

- Yeah, it's like my grandma's attic times two.

- 有點像你老阿媽的閣樓。 - 真的很有意思。

- Is it about two grandma's attics in here?

- 對呀，就像我老阿媽的閣樓再加一倍。