What do you do when a vulture with a crushed beak needs a new beak and two attempts to fit an acrylic beak fail? You improvise and use the beak of a deceased vulture, successfully enabling the injured bird to feed again.
A vulture was on the brink of death after a car crash that left it without an eye and beak. But Professor Katja Koeppel at a South African conservation centre has given it a second chance at life.
Asymptomatic animal handlers at a private zoo in South Africa transmitted the Delta variant of COVID-19 to captive lions, who were placed in quarantine and developed symptoms like breathing problem, runny nose and dry cough, according to a recent study by a team of scientists from the University of Pretoria.
The research report, published recently in the journal ‘Viruses’, also urged