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A rare and absolutely enchanting look inside the Harvard of wild animal wranglers

As is obvious to anyone who has read her most e-mailed New York Times article of 2006, “What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage,” Amy Sutherland knows a thing or two about animals. In Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, she takes readers behind the gates of Moorpark Community College, where students are taught such skills as how to train a hyena to pirouette and coax a tiger to open wide for a vet exam. As she follows the faculty, student body, and four- footed teaching aides at Moorpark’s Exotic Animal Training and Management program, Sutherland produces a true walk on the wild side, filled with wonder, comedy, occasional heartache, and transcendent beauty..
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This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Thomson Gale on August 27, 2007. The length of the article is 787 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: We've only scratched the surface.(Special Report)
Author: Kathy Deck
Publication:Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 27, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 24 Issue: 34 Page: S17(1)

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This digital document is a journal article from Bioresource Technology, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Biofilms of a wild type Escherichia coli were grown on 316 stainless steel slides in a nutrient starved medium. The stainless steel surfaces were either polished to a smooth finish or scribed. The scribes consisted of lines and crosses. Biofilm samples were taken after 3, 6, 12, 24 and 48 h of growth. After sampling, the slides were soaked in deionized water or 50 or 200 ppm free chlorine prior to vital staining. Images were captured and the areas of viable and total biofilm were estimated. The individual biofilm patches, circularities, total percentage coverage, and viability percentage coverage were analyzed. The biofilms tended to increase in size between 6 and 24 h. A 3-6 h old biofilm on a polished stainless steel surface detached when 200 ppm sodium hypochlorite was applied. When grown in scribes, the circularity decreased up to 24 h, but thereafter increased. As the film grew older, it detached with or without a sodium hypochlorite treatment from the part of the surface that was polished, but remained in the neighborhood of the scribe. Based on the results, we recommend sanitizing at intervals of less than 12 h for this and similar strains of bacteria and protection of stainless steel surfaces to minimize scratching. .
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