Animal Kingdom Vet on Cutting Edge With Elephant Vasectomies
Friday, September 7, 2007
By: Judith Smelser
Sept. 7, 2007 - A team of scientists led by the chief veterinarian at Disney's Animal Kingdom recently returned from South Africa, where members performed vasectomies on five male elephants in the wild. The surgery is groundbreaking, but as 90.7's Judith Smelser reports, it also raises controversial issues about how to deal with Africa's elephant population.
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