When scientists step outside their safe laboratories, anything can happen. Of course, studying wild animals or digging out million-year-old fossils sounds exotic and exciting, but that's only one side of the spectrum. The other side is sometimes gross and scary but mostly it's hilarious. In 2015 scientists started sharing their most embarrassing #Fieldworkfails, and recently French illustrator Jim Jourdane has decided to compile the most memorable ones and turn them into amusing whimsical drawings.
From gluing yourself to a crocodile to walking in a thunderstorm with a 10 feet (3 metre) aerial, these moments show us that science is full of hilarious trainwrecks, too. Jourdane interviewed all scientists whose stories were included in his book to get a better understanding of their fieldwork and its details. "I talked to [them] I realized that there's a lot of problems of communication with the general public about how they work, what they do," he told Gizmodo. Thus, he tried to make his visual anecdotes available to everyone: "Eleven year old children, my grandmother, friends, scientists."
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I'm curious Angela, how did you manage to mark the jaguar's territory sign? And then stick around his territory for three weeks. Perhaps the big cat was trying to mate with you? ;D
Be honest, Angela, you're not really here for the research, are you? #notjudging
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Jaguar: "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking for a toilet, I can tell you I don't have it. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I've acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my tree alone, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you. I will find you……and I will kill you."
EXACTLY , THE WORST THING, THAT YOU COULD DO, TO P!SS OFF A BIG MALE CAT, OR ANY MALE CAT!
I think that you sentence should be "Pee accidentally" which would be stating that when selecting a spot of urination you unknowingly selected on marked by a cat. Your sentence suggests that you were innocently walking through a forest when you began to urinate unexpectedly on a tree marked by a cat. Fairly significant difference I think.
No because that's not how the world works you crazy f**k!
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Honestly, without this image I would've not get the idea. Thanks artist.
Those bees should have tiny question marks over their heads in the picture.
I can't believe this one is real. Seems more like cartoon. How can you not see a damn elephant? xD
The cartoons were cute but it seems some people expected them to be exact representations. It was kind of a bummer reading so many critical comments, BP is usually better than that.
Especially as the drawings are supposed to make us laugh
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There are much more illustrations on the book! http://fieldworkfail.com/book/
Load More Replies... Hi! I'm the illustrator. Don't hesitate to ask me questions or comments, here or on my page (link on the article) :)
I enjoyed your work very much! I'm sorry that you had to put up with the negative pseudo experts. You are very patient!
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I was fasinated with science when I was young. Mostly biology and geology. When I was about 5, I found a few big crystals that were flat green, one or two light brown spots. At first I thought it was rare amazonite, so I dug for about 3 hours and found two more samples. I looked in my mineral pricing book, and they were work around $5000 total! ...turns out my dad was being a jerk and spray painted quartz flat green to fool be... But, yeah. Whatever.
The cartoons were cute but it seems some people expected them to be exact representations. It was kind of a bummer reading so many critical comments, BP is usually better than that.
Especially as the drawings are supposed to make us laugh
Load More Replies... There are much more illustrations on the book! http://fieldworkfail.com/book/
Load More Replies... Hi! I'm the illustrator. Don't hesitate to ask me questions or comments, here or on my page (link on the article) :)
I enjoyed your work very much! I'm sorry that you had to put up with the negative pseudo experts. You are very patient!
Load More Replies... I was fasinated with science when I was young. Mostly biology and geology. When I was about 5, I found a few big crystals that were flat green, one or two light brown spots. At first I thought it was rare amazonite, so I dug for about 3 hours and found two more samples. I looked in my mineral pricing book, and they were work around $5000 total! ...turns out my dad was being a jerk and spray painted quartz flat green to fool be... But, yeah. Whatever.
