When most of us imagine scientists , we picture white lab coats , sparkle workplace benches , and tidy , contain experiments . We do not tend to envisage incidentally exchanging spittle with drained animal or gluing oneself to a large carnivore .
But such is the nature of field work , a romanticistic - fathom bodily function that , in realism , is a moment like strapping a bunch of lively grenades to rabid dogs and setting them open in a city . I was a scientific discipline grad student in a previous life story , and the worst thing that ever happened to me was getting lost in the wood and take in to hitchhike down a Puerto Rican mountainside in the rain with a bunch of soon - to - be - slaughtered chickens on the back of some prissy old valet ’s truck .
Others have seen the far side of perdition . start out late last workweek , scientists came out of the woodworking to divvy up their # fieldworkfail stories — raise once and for all that these are some of the weirdest , toughest , most harebrained crazies you ’ll ever meet . God bless ‘ em .
When your drugged zebra finds the ONE tree diagram on the Namibian plains , which also has a neck - height fork#fieldworkfailpic.twitter.com/2iUx2uxGNB
— Dr. C Cizauskas ( @CarrieCizauskas)August 3 , 2015
incidentally glued myself to a crocodile while attaching a radio transmitter.#fieldworkfail
— Agata Staniewicz ( @AgataStaniewicz)July 30 , 2015
That sink feeling when you realise you have unwittingly exchanged saliva with a dead jackal#fieldworkfail
— Prof Sarah Durant ( @SarahMDurant)July 31 , 2015
https://twitter.com/embed/status/626924164281147393
Lick bantam object to discern if fossil / stone . Fossil . Sticks to tongue . Coughing fit from dust . Sharp inhale . Swallow fossil.#fieldworkfail
— Trevor Valle ➡ ️ Anywhere Else ( @tattoosandbones)July 31 , 2015
Getting the@ZSLSciencetruck mystify in a river in the midriff of Mongolia whilst searching for bats#fieldworkfailpic.twitter.com / f9yGoP2JVW
— Kate E. Jones 🦇 ( @ProfKateJones)August 4 , 2015
When you are collecting cheetah poop and flatten some on yourself.#fieldworkfail#distractinglysexypic.twitter.com / RvgHfauQ6P
— Anne Hilborn ( @AnneWHilborn)July 30 , 2015
https://twitter.com/embed/status/627053329877725184
Accidentally pee on a Jaguar´s marked tree . Get chase after by the panther for 3 weeks , might sound exciting , in reality quite scary#fieldworkfails
— Angela Bayona - Valderrama ( @AngelaBayonaV)August 3 , 2015
Once I got very delirious to find some bones in a trench , remember it may have been a kitchen midden , then the KFC wrap emerged.#fieldworkfails
— ɿɘbɒɒᙠ ʏbᴎA ( @PostAntiquarian)August 4 , 2015
Skillfully applied thousand dollar orbiter tatter to manta ray . The same manta re I tagged yesterday#fieldworkfailpic.twitter.com / xHR1agskar
— Alistair Dove ( @DrAlistairDove)July 31 , 2015
https://twitter.com/embed/status/628649236410662913
come upon secret granola cache in field station = 🎁 🎄 🎉 👍 🏼 ! Realizing later on ' flax seeds ' in reality weevils = # fieldworkfail .
— Aerin Jacob ( @Aerin_J)July 30 , 2015
When you spill pheromone solution on yourself and become the sexy damn Tanner mallet in all Skåne#fieldworkfail#distractinglysexy
— Caroline Ponsonby ( @LeFunambulist)August 4 , 2015
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