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A 4-year-old giant tortoise with a shattered shell is walking again thanks to a veterinarian's ingenious custom contraption. The Filipino vet used hooks, wires, and dental acrylic to piece the broken carapace back together.
A young spotted hyena at an Australian safari park now sports a custom gold crown after dental surgery restored his ability to chew bones. The innovative procedure helped Jabali overcome jaw deformities from an early-life injury.
A specially designed elephant ambulance just completed its first rescue mission, transporting a 27-year-old elephant named Veer across India to receive life-saving veterinary care. The innovative vehicle lets medical teams monitor and treat elephants safely during transport while minimizing their stress.
A Florida zoo team traveled to Zimbabwe and used "ridiculous" training techniques to save a wild rhino from going blind. Within two weeks, they taught the 4,000-pound animal to trust humans enough to accept eye drops for a parasitic infection.
When a wild rhino in Zimbabwe faced blindness from a parasitic eye infection, animal behaviorists from Florida flew to Africa with a plan locals called "completely ridiculous." Two weeks later, the rhino was holding still for daily eyedrops.
A retired London zookeeper invented a robot that can vaccinate wild badgers in seconds without human contact, offering a humane alternative to controversial culling programs. The machine, originally built for a shy tiger, could help protect Britain's largest wild carnivore while combating bovine TB.