Pretty aren't they? I think they look a little bit like planets actually. This is also quite beneficial for one of my current modules at vet school. We recently did some ophthalmology and it helped to make a comparison and look at a few human cases.
On the pics above you can see my retina with a white-ish circle, which is the optic nerve taking info to the brain, the dark spot of the macula and all the red lines, which are blood vessels.
During lectures we were taught the theory of various methods of looking at the back of the eye with a scope. These proved a lot more difficult in practice (and that was just on humans that stayed still). Thank you to a few of the optometrists for helping my with this direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy practice (as well as my long suffering, unsuspecting colleagues acting as patients!).
Now, you're probably wondering what the strange looking one on the right is? Well, that is supposed to be a hedgehog roll. According to the destruction manual, this seemed a faily simple task involving slight stabbing with a pair of scissors and careful placement of 2 raisins as eyes. It just wasn't that simple, hence the lonely, slightly evil looking 'hedgehog'. Still did the job though. As a vegetarian, I actually found buttered hedgehog quite a delicacy.
