Animals Inside Out

This weekend we visited the Milwaukee County Zoo to see the exhibit ANIMALS INSIDE OUT.

The exhibit takes visitors on an "anatomical safari" inside more than 100 specimens preserved through the process of Plastination, invented by Dr. Charles von Hagens. This process stops decomposition by extracting bodily fluids and replacing them through vacuum-forced impregnation with polymers-such as silicone rubber. The specimens go through a curing phase using light, heat, or gases to give the specimens permanence.

Dissection and Plastination of an entire body requires about 1,500 working hours and takes about 1 year to complete.

Horse's Head Blood Vessel System

Below are amazing examples of this fascinating process. By the way, no animals were purposely killed for these exhibits, but came by donation after natural death.

Horse's Head

Full Horse Body

Goat Intestines

Goat Standing

Bull

Bull Side View

Mail and Female Caribou

Giraffe

Giraffe

Shark (Impressive)

Dog showing all blood vessels

Human Brain

Human with cut away of face and ribs