Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Animation of the head of a 22-year-old adult female Baringo giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi, OUVC 10513) demonstrating aspects of the head blood vascular system. Arteries and veins were injected with different concentrations of barium and latex, allowing their discrimination with CT scanning. The first series (white background, surface rendering) depicts all the vessels as green, whereas the second series (black background, volume rendering) provides some color coding (blue veins and red arteries). This giraffe was named Susie and lived at The Wilds (part of the Columbus Zoo system) in Cumberland, Ohio, where she died of natural causes in December 2003 at which point her head came to WitmerLab at Ohio University for research. It was injected by WitmerLab members Larry Witmer, Casey Holliday, Ryan Ridgely, and Tobin Hieronymus, with help from Eric McElroy. This work was published in PeerJ in 2016 by Haley D. O’Brien, Paul M. Gignac, Tobin L. Hieronymus, and Lawrence M. Witmer: peerj.com/articles/1696/. This visualization was done by Ryan Ridgely using Avizo, Adobe Premiere, and Quicktime. We thank Heather Rockhold and OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital for CT scanning and NSF for funding. For news from WitmerLab, visit http://www.ohio.edu/witmerlab or our Facebook page (facebook.com/witmerlab).
Animation of the head of a 22-year-old adult female Baringo giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi, OUVC 10513) demonstrating aspects of the head blood vascular system. Arteries and veins were injected with different concentrations of barium and latex, allowing their discrimination with CT scanning. The first series (white background, surface rendering) depicts all the vessels as green, whereas the second series (black background, volume rendering) provides some color coding (blue veins and red arteries). This giraffe was named Susie and lived at The Wilds (part of the Columbus Zoo system) in Cumberland, Ohio, where she died of natural causes in December 2003 at which point her head came to WitmerLab at Ohio University for research. It was injected by WitmerLab members Larry Witmer, Casey Holliday, Ryan Ridgely, and Tobin Hieronymus, with help from Eric McElroy. This work was published in PeerJ in 2016 by Haley D. O’Brien, Paul M. Gignac, Tobin L. Hieronymus, and Lawrence M. Witmer: peerj.com/articles/1696/. This visualization was done by Ryan Ridgely using Avizo, Adobe Premiere, and Quicktime. We thank Heather Rockhold and OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital for CT scanning and NSF for funding. For news from WitmerLab, visit http://www.ohio.edu/witmerlab or our Facebook page (facebook.com/witmerlab).
