Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum

Melanerpes 

  This genus of woodpeckers’ name in Latin means black creeper, which I find misleading and amusing if you think of it out of context.  Black creepers.  You’d think it were describing some kind of noxious disease, not these dainty little birds all lined up in rows.  Aw, I got a bad case of the black creeper. 

I am getting back into the lab tomorrow to do some work on an elk leg that has promised to have some interesting pathologies.  Stay tuned!