Whoopi's Wounds (image)
Caption
Images of the wounds from Days 0, 17, 33, 42 and 295 (A-E respectively) showing the fresh wound, incremental healing and near stable wounds on reef manta ray. On the right are close up images of Day 0 (i) showing severed cartilage, Day 7 (ii) (time not used in calculations) showing the start of healing, and Day 295 (iii) showing near complete healing with concave scars. The red arrows in (i) indicate the protocol for measuring each wound where the distance from the top of the wound to the mid-point between the adjacent sides at the extremity was used to indicate wound length.
Credit
The University of Queensland
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