Somewhere behind a Tennessee hospital, the residents are very, very quiet.
To learn how crime victims decay, scientists in Tennessee locked donated bodies inside what spot every mob movie loves?
A car trunk The original body farm, started by anthropologist William Bass behind the University of Tennessee Medical Center, leaves donated bodies in all kinds of settings, from car trunks to underwater, so police can read real crime scenes.
Some body farms skip humans and use a pink barnyard animal as a stand-in. Which one?
Pigs Southern Illinois University started its research with pigs, and British universities still rely on them, though pigs don't get the same illnesses or injuries as people.
A nearby airport fought a Texas body farm over birds circling the corpses. What did scientists do about the birds once it opened?
Studied them The vultures that nearly sank the Texas State project at Freeman Ranch became a brand new research topic: how scavenging birds change the way a body breaks down.
Time-lapse cameras at an Australian body farm caught the dead doing something creepy. What?
Moving their arms Research near Sydney found the arms of the dead shift most in early decay, while the legs move more later on.
Angry Knoxville neighbors formed a protest group whose initials spelled out exactly how they felt. What word?
SICK Solutions to Issues of Concern to Knoxvillians waved signs reading "This makes us SICK," but the farm stayed, added a privacy fence, and inspired copies across the country.
