<div dir="ltr">Thoroughly impressed, along with my class of 11 and 12th graders (who asked me if all of them were real). Well done!<div><br></div><div>~Jenn</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 7:25 AM Mike Rutherford <<a href="mailto:Mike.Rutherford@glasgow.ac.uk">Mike.Rutherford@glasgow.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg9069743405316871229">




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 with a zoological focus. This was performed for the first time ever at my departmental
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