Researchers around the world have taken to Twitter to share their funniest and strangest fieldwork errors.
Scientists have shown all the things that can go wrong for them in the wild using the Twitter hashtag #fieldworkfail.
From accidentally swallowing fossils to falling out of a boat in crocodile infested waters, fieldwork fails range from the bemusing to the bizarre.
Set up camera station. Hope to get pictures of native carnivores. Get hundreds of pictures of this. #fieldworkfail pic.twitter.com/zA77Sa3h75
— Asia Murphy (@am_anatiala) July 31, 2015
Don't leave equipment out by the creek. Bears will destroy it. #fieldworkfail pic.twitter.com/CRhNpy6ZXO
— Anne Hilborn (@AnneWHilborn) July 31, 2015
Skillfully applied thousand dollar satellite tag to manta ray. The same manta ray I tagged yesterday #fieldworkfail pic.twitter.com/xHR1agskar
— Dr. Alistair Dove (@AlistairDove) July 31, 2015
#fieldworkfail Collect good haul of fossils, make vehicle so heavy it can't climb up a shallow slope.. pic.twitter.com/FapzqVnULT
— Darren Naish (@TetZoo) August 1, 2015
When you're alone in the field for WAY too long & start acting a bit too much like your study animals. #fieldworkfail pic.twitter.com/FbXnfSbqWF
— Carrie Cizauskas (@CarrieCizauskas) August 3, 2015
Dropped phone to a deep hole in the ground. Spent rest of the day digging it up. #fieldworkfail #ETnophonehome pic.twitter.com/VJevh66eii
— KMO Archaeology (@KMOArchaeology) August 7, 2015
Accidentally glued myself to a crocodile while attaching a radio transmitter. #fieldworkfail
— Agata Staniewicz (@AgataStaniewicz) July 30, 2015
Two days of driving across Madagascar & you just wanna sleep but there's a deadly scorpion in your bed #fieldworkfail pic.twitter.com/13QDgxURKs
— Kate Littler (@Kate_Littler) July 30, 2015
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brushed hand against #DonaldTrump caterpillar's hair, lost all sensation in left arm for 24hrs #fieldworkfail pic.twitter.com/f3OK9N47YA
— Joe Parker (@Pselaphinae) August 2, 2015
Oh, you just hammer in the electrodes, they said. It's Antarctica. First, get your hot water thermos. #fieldworkfail pic.twitter.com/0l4WUkYcce
— Michele Bannister (@astrokiwi) July 31, 2015
Rental car companies probably should ask if you are a field biologist #fieldworkfail pic.twitter.com/dBtzdiCyQB
— Marcella J. Kelly (@marcellajkelly) July 31, 2015
Accidentally pee on a Jaguar´s marked tree. Get chased by the jaguar for 3 weeks, might sound exciting, actually quite scary #fieldworkfails
— Angela Maria Bayona (@AngelaBayonaV) August 3, 2015
That time your packed boat leaving the field flipped in the surf...twice...and a chicken died. #bioko #fieldworkfail pic.twitter.com/oHekDgzaq8
— Drew Cronin (@DrewCronin) July 30, 2015
#fieldworkfail Student fishing for guppies in Trinidad just inches from a Fer de Lance. NOT STAGED. pic.twitter.com/3c7uJ3wa0q
— Andrew Hendry (@EcoEvoEvoEco) August 2, 2015
When your drugged zebra finds the ONE tree on the Namibian plains, which also has a neck-height fork #fieldworkfail pic.twitter.com/2iUx2uxGNB
— Carrie Cizauskas (@CarrieCizauskas) August 3, 2015
