Ichthyophobia?
#1 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 30 January 2009 - 02:38 PM
#2 Guest_farmertodd_*
Posted 30 January 2009 - 03:04 PM
Todd
#3 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 30 January 2009 - 03:22 PM
#4 Guest_nativeplanter_*
Posted 30 January 2009 - 03:41 PM
#5 Guest_Newt_*
Posted 30 January 2009 - 03:45 PM
#6 Guest_critterguy_*
Posted 30 January 2009 - 04:11 PM
Supposedly this lady had a frog jump onto her face when she was little. Treefrog apparently, and the more her parents tried to pull it off the tighter it clung. I talked to her and she did want to get over it, but when I mentioned what was required we quickly switched topic.
I'm in with Todd. But why take bio if you are afraid of fish?
Also, I've come to believe that with the current population of humans ophidophobia and arachnophobia are the norm. If you are not scared of a snake or a spider, you are weird.
#7 Guest_andyavram_*
Posted 30 January 2009 - 04:21 PM
I am afraid of snakes and spiders too.
Andy
#8 Guest_bart_*
Posted 30 January 2009 - 07:42 PM
Great stories guys, very bizarre.
#9 Guest_BTDarters_*
Posted 31 January 2009 - 02:06 AM
What is it called when you have the opposite problem and freak out when you aren't near fish?
Good one!
Brian
#10 Guest_BTDarters_*
Posted 31 January 2009 - 02:09 AM
What is it called when you have the opposite problem and freak out when you aren't near fish?
I think it's called LackOfPiscineCompanyOPhobia.
Brian
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#11 Guest_farmertodd_*
Posted 31 January 2009 - 08:00 PM
But why take bio if you are afraid of fish?
Coz we make 'em Our nursing department even works with our ecology department to use Biodiversity 2260 for their "screening" class before they even bother with them going through inorganic chem.
Some students, however, are just trying to get out of doing something. I figured this out pretty quickly in my first TA assignment. I told them it would be fine for them to sit out on dissections, but they 1) had to write a report and 2) it was due at the end of the lab period (ie not at your leisure). Amazingly, we had all students present for dissection
Todd
#12 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 31 January 2009 - 08:30 PM
Ha ha, you guys have to deal with totally unprepared nursing wannabes too! An unfortunate joke is that every hairdresser in Huntsville is planning to become a nurse anesthetist. But they often reconsider after barely scraping out a D in Chemistry 101, basically a remedial high-school chemistry class. And I also wind up as a gatekeeper in my Biology 1 course. The core nursing curriculum is much more challenging.Coz we make 'em Our nursing department even works with our ecology department to use Biodiversity 2260 for their "screening" class before they even bother with them going through inorganic chem.
Todd
#13 Guest_rjmtx_*
Posted 31 January 2009 - 10:16 PM
#14 Guest_Newt_*
Posted 02 February 2009 - 11:59 AM
#15 Guest_nativeplanter_*
Posted 02 February 2009 - 01:02 PM
It's kind of become my job whenever we get a new grad student or undergrad assistant to break them of their fear of snakes (almost every one of them has been at least afraid to handle them, while a few have been full-blown ophidiophobes). We had one guy who was terrified of spotted salamanders, of all things.
When I first started my graduate research at the Savannah River Ecology Lab, my ever-so-wise advisor brought all of us out to the outreach building where the outreach guy kept the snakes. The main point was to show us the venomous ones so we will recongnise them, seeing as we spend the whole day in the swamp. I'm not afraid of snakes in general (handling them is just fine), but I must admit I was a tad nervous with 5 of us in a small room with venemous snakes let loose on the floor! The most memorable part of the day, though was getting to hold the baby alligators. Man, I cherish the time I spent at that facility.
#16 Guest_Newt_*
Posted 02 February 2009 - 01:08 PM
#17 Guest_nativeplanter_*
Posted 02 February 2009 - 06:03 PM
You worked at SREL? I must admit I'm envious.
I did. And I was extraordinarily fortunate to have had the opportunity. My research was in Carolina bays. The facility is top notch, the faculty and staff motivated and highly collaborative, and the study sites were supurb, in part because they haven't been disturbed in over 50 years, and one can set up permanent plots without fear of them being vandalized. Unfortunately its funding has been severely slashed over the past few years, and it is only a small fraction of what it once was. The people remaining are still outstanding scientists, but a lot of good scientists were let go. This was one of the premier research institutions for ecology. For those interested who are not familiar with it, the website is http://www.uga.edu/~srel/. A summary of the recent funding problems is here: http://www.savesrel.org/
#18 Guest_Newt_*
Posted 02 February 2009 - 06:13 PM
Edited by Newt, 02 February 2009 - 06:13 PM.
#19 Guest_BLChristie_*
Posted 02 February 2009 - 06:43 PM
One was a keeper who worked with marine mammals but was afraid of fish (yet worked in a major public aquarium!), and slowly got over her fear by acclimating to them, even to the point of diving in the tanks being surrounded and mauled by fishes during feedings...
The other, a much sadder case, was a freshman marine biology major who came to intern with us for one day: we went about our daily routines, hopping in all of the tanks to skim leaves off the surface, remove uneaten food, et cetera...but this new student abjectly refused to enter any of the tanks in the exhibit, finally I decided to "help" her with her fear and I convinced her to get in a small pond with a waterfall that disturbed the surface to the point that it prevented you from being able to see the fish...after she had cleaned out the tank she noticed something moving around her legs, and asked what it was... I thought my response would embolden her, and help her get over her fear, but: "congratulations you are in a tank with piranha" instead made her turn white as a sheet and emit an earsplitting shriek while jumping out of the tank, and running far, far away from her internship...never did understand why she was studying marine biology with a deathly fear of fish!
...I don't get it, but then again I don't get a lot of what makes people tick (fish are so much easier to understand!)
Edited by BLChristie, 02 February 2009 - 06:46 PM.
#20 Guest_rjmtx_*
Posted 02 February 2009 - 06:56 PM
edit Nevermind, I just read under your post the Dallas Aquarium. Is that the Fair Park aquarium?
Edited by rjmtx, 02 February 2009 - 06:58 PM.
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