Vet students get up close and personal

One day soon your pets' lives may be in their hands – the one part of their body you are unlikely to be focusing on in this series of snaps.

Massey University third-year veterinary students have bared all – almost – for a calendar to raise funds for a trip to mark the halfway point in their degree, and also to raise money for Paw Justice, an organisation fighting animal abuse and neglect.

In the Barely There 2010-11 calendar, the students are mostly naked but have animals or items such as books and instruments obscuring particular body parts. MORE>>