#thermometers

[bootlegpals]

A bootleg Snoopy clock with a thermometer

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[leaslichoma]

I've been measuring my body temperature for fun recently. I found out that my average body temperature is about 96.5 degrees Fahrenheit, which is a perfectly normal temperature for a Virginia opossum. Unusually low for a human, though. I'll have to try again with a different thermometer so I know it's not a matter of miscalibration.

[sharkyswaters]

Harvey Avedon 1950's Celsius and Fahrenheit Vintage Cufflinks, Round W

Fun pair of novelty cufflinks by Harvey Avedon in the late 1950's. They are thermometer cufflinks with one showing Celsius and the other sho

[uwmspeccoll]

Science Saturday

We return to our Historical Curriculum Collection children’s book All Around Us by Wilbur L. Beauchamp, Gertrude Crampton, and William S. Gray, and published by Scott, Foresman and Company in Chicago in 1944. This is Book B in the Scott Foresman Basic Studies in Science: Curriculum Foundation Series. The series was based on the experiential “Look and Learn” approach.

Previously we highlighted sections on animals and plants from this book. Today we focus on the “Sun, Wind, and Weather” section with emphasis on sunlight and shadow, using thermometers, and the wind as force. Russian-born Chicago artist and illustrator Gregory Orloff did the illustrations for “Do Shadows Help Tell Time?” and the girls experimenting with thermometers, while the remainder are by the husband and wife team of A. F. Hurford and Miriam Story Hurford.  Miriam Hurford is remembered especially as one of the illustrators for Scott Foresman’s Dick and Jane readers, which was written by William S. Gray.

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[ask-a-vetblr]

my doggy's vet clinic got roasted on yelp because they use anal thermometers instead of auricular. it seemed silly to me bc my dog gets way more freaked about ear stuff. what's the tea on this issue?

gettingvetted here.

I can't say I've ever worked at or heard of a vet clinic using auricular thermometers with pets. It is not the norm, at all. Plus, if people want to complain about vet prices, and then want the staff to use a $45-90 animal-specific and likely inaccurate auricular thermometer instead of a $3 rectal thermometer, they have lost their right to complain.

vet-and-wild here.

I can add that there was a study for ferrets that you could use one of those baby forehead thermometers to get an accurate temperature between the shoulder blades. It was only one specific brand and my clinic has been trying it but it does not appear to match the rectal temperature. It’s usually 1-3 degrees off. Which isn’t a huge deal for a healthy ferret but if we’re getting a 103+ temp with a scan between the shoulder blades we are verifying it with a rectal thermometer to make sure it’s accurate. No animal is more uncooperative for a rectal temp than a ferret tbh. It would be great if we could have an alternative to rectal thermometers but they’re just not accurate for animals.

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[fbwzoo]

Hello! I was wondering if you had any good recommendations for a thermometer/hygrometer for a gecko enclosure. I really want to help my sister take good care of her gecko and I'd like to get her one that actually works for Christmas.

Hey, I’m sorry this is so late of an answer and not much help for Christmas anymore. :( For cheaper options, I like the Acurite thermometer/hygrometers like this one and have used them in my crab tank for a few years. I used one in Charis’s viv too, but she broke it off the wall, and then repeatedly knocked it off any perch, so that didn’t work great, lmao. I decided to go with station + sensor options like this for both the crabs and Charis now, though I haven’t really had them in use much yet. But hopefully they’ll last longer with the station being outside the enclosure (especially with the crabs). I gotta double check the humidity readings for all of them, to see how much they’re off by - if you need help figuring out how to do that, just google calibration test for hygrometer, you should get something about using a teaspoon of damp salt + sealed container. With the digital things, you can’t adjust it to be correct, but you can note down how much it’s off by so you can still keep track. I hope this is still a little helpful even though it’s so late!