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I have direct experience with this.
In college, I got a job on campus in their Environment, Health, and Safety department. Mostly, I just calibrated fume hoods in labs.
During my time there, a hippo at a nearby zoo passed away. I don’t want to be too specific because it can be a bit icky, but they essentially shipped it to us for incineration.
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What a phone call that must have been. I'm amazed that a college would have a big enough incenerator!
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I doubt that the incinerator was big enough, and that's what the "icky specifics" covers...
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Bingo.
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It is a large Division 1 university. I don’t know exactly how big the incinerator is. Thankfully I wasn’t the one who handled that particular task.
I assume it comes down to our hazmat clearances, though. Just a guess. That was almost 20 years ago!
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Doesn't sound icky. I would assume they used it for science. I'm surprised they burn them.
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Honestly, we probably know everything we could learn from a dead hippo carcass.
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