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For many of us, the highlight of our research careers is field work. For me research in the field was the thing that made me want to become a #BlackMammalogist. It usually goes well, it sometimes doesn't. What is your greatest #FieldworkFail? @BlkMammalogists
I have had several #Fieldworkfails. There was the tough lesson learned about why I should be anchoring expensive taxidermy mounts to the ground.
There was also that time I got a #leech in my eye @CentreValBio. That black line along the top of my eyelid...that's it. Had to hike 45 min back to camp to get it pulled out. At some stage it got kinda hard to see... #FieldworkFail , #LeechOnMyEyeball Image
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Love this #fieldworkfail from @ResilientDairy trying to catch flies on cattle - turns out sweep netting is a tad dangerous in a field of frisky cows, so they moved to glue traps on the hedges but they couldn't identify gluey flies..
Finally they struck gold with a technique that has all the farmers talking (or laughing) for miles: hoovering hedges with a hand held vaccum cleaner. It works!
Thanks @DianaWilliadj for leading the @livuninews team in @ResilientDairy with such perseverance!
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Science is convincing a frog to jump by pretending to eat it ...then getting a frog up the nose for your troubles.

Not quite #fieldworkfail, possibly #overlyhonestmethods, unmistakably perfect whatever the tag.
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