Amara is an almost 2-year old Southern white rhino from Knowsley Safari Park.
A team of veterinarians perform a medial procedure on Amara, a rhino with a broken leg, at Knowsley Safari in Merseyside, England, in a photo distributed by the safari on Sept. 19, 2024.A team of over ten vets – including specialist surgeons, anaesthetists, and animal keepers – have on Thursday performed what they described as a ground-breaking world-first surgery on a Rhino with a broken leg.
"Earlier this year, Amara began limping on her right front leg," Knowsley Safari Park told ABC News in a statement. "The Knowsley Safari team brought in specialist equine surgeons from the University of Liverpool to help with the diagnosis, where radiographs confirmed a fractured ulna." "Under anaesthesia in Amara's enclosure, the large team performed a lengthy operation, including key-hole surgery of Amara's wrist, in a procedure lasting five hours."
He added, "We were unsure if the cast would be strong enough and how Amara would cope with such a restriction on her limb. We hoped that she would accept it and that she would be able to move around, get down and, importantly, back up again but this was unchartered water."
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