Going through veterinary school, there was always rivalry between the medical students and the veterinary students. You might be familiar with the bumper sticker, “Real doctors treat more than one species.”
The animals that line up in a row under that banner include the traditional dog, cat, horse, cow, sheep, pig and maybe rabbit and mouse.
Now as an aquatic veterinarian, I’m taking that further. “Aquatic Veterinarians treat more than one Phyla!”
The Phyla I’d like to be represented include:
- Coelenterates (e.g. coral, jellyfish, anemone),
- Arthropods (e.g. crab, prawn, lobster),
- Echinoderm (e.g. starfish, sea cucumber),
- Mollusc (e.g. abalone, octopus, cuttlefish, oyster),
- Vertebrates (e.g. Fish, Amphibia, Reptiles [crocodile, turtles, sea snake] and Marine mammals [dolphin, orca]).
Perhaps for the aquatic animals, we might even need to have 2-3 lines of animal pictures!
Check out the idea for my design here and feel free to contribute by design and vote if you can –
99designs.com.au/t-shirt-design/contests/t-shirt-design-required-251104/brief
The audience for the T-shirt design is aquatic veterinarians; for us to wear, to help increase awareness within our veterinary profession and to the outside world.
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Yours sincerely,
Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology) Murdoch, MANZCVS (Aquatics& Pathobiology), Cert AqV.
The Fish Vet, Perth, Western Australia.
Veterinary Medicine for fish.
W: http://www.thefishvet.com.au
E: thefishvet
P: +61 (0)421 822 383
