This is a picture of a partial Tilapia skeleton, and something I've been thinking a lot about these past couple of weeks. I have been working on a school project where I am doing actual real research that has not been done before. I am trying to figure out if it is possible to identify the species of a fish based on only the vertebrae. And if it can be done, how do you do it. Basically we found out that you can sort of tell. :) It has definitely been interesting though, I have really enjoyed the thought process and the freedom to just try and figure it out on my own. But at times I have got frustrated with it (especially with my ineptitude at using spreadsheets and other computer programs that it would be helpful). Several mornings between being asleep and awake I have swam in a haze of vertebrae and spreadsheets. Occasionally when I close my eyes I see vertebrae dancing before my eyes. I've procrastinated other homework to work on this, and I've given up in disgust multiple times. So the question is: am I obsessed? or am I disgusted with the whole project? Perhaps they are the same thing.
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