抄録
The purpose of this paper is to present a method of making bone specimens in cooperation with a zoo. At the zoo, the veterinarian keeps dead animal specimens refrigerated after autopsies have been performed. The author borrows the specimens and turns them into bone specimens by heating them. During the heating process, it was found useful to put a specimen into a high-density polyethylene (HDPD) bag with water, and to keep the bag in hot water. This use of a HDPD bag helps eliminate malodors and maintains the alignment of the bones. This process has been practiced for eight years in classes at the Graduate School of Education, Ibaraki University. The benefits of the system are that graduate students experience cooperation with a zoo and are able to borrow the specimens after becoming school teachers. For its part, the zoo increases its collection of bone specimens as educational materials. Thus, the zoo, schools, and the graduate school of education effectively constitute a regional system of zoological education.
