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respiring or they would die. Thus, each of us took a shark pup and “walked” it
around a tank, forcing water over the gills until it started to respire on its own
(Fig. 5 , top). We had, to our delight, a 100 % success rate. While other animals
became our experimental subjects and are commemorated in Fay et al. ( 1974 ), our
friend Leo Demski (now at the University of South Florida campus in Sarasota) was
also at Eniwetok and was able to use a few of the pups for a study on the ventricles
of the shark brain.
Fig. 5 Top : Art “walking” a newborn shark pup after Al Tester did a C-section on the mother.
Bottom : Setup designed by Dick to measure the microphonic potentials from a shark. The large
box toward the top was a circa 1971 signal average
A.N. Popper and R.R. Fay
respiring or they would die. Thus, each of us took a shark pup and “walked” it
around a tank, forcing water over the gills until it started to respire on its own
(Fig. 5 , top). We had, to our delight, a 100 % success rate. While other animals
became our experimental subjects and are commemorated in Fay et al. ( 1974 ), our
friend Leo Demski (now at the University of South Florida campus in Sarasota) was
also at Eniwetok and was able to use a few of the pups for a study on the ventricles
of the shark brain.
Fig. 5 Top : Art “walking” a newborn shark pup after Al Tester did a C-section on the mother.
Bottom : Setup designed by Dick to measure the microphonic potentials from a shark. The large
box toward the top was a circa 1971 signal average
A.N. Popper and R.R. Fay