Animal Videos and News | January 31, 2011 | 0 comments

Tiger Undergoes Hip Replacement Surgery

source: http://news.discovery.com/dinosaurs/tiger-hip-replacement-surgery-110128.html

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A tiger in Germany has become the world's first to be given an artificial hip after a three-hour-operation by a team of vets that she only just survived, Leipzig University said on Thursday.Girl, as the Malayan tiger at Halle Zoo in eastern Germany is known, had been in visible pain for close to a year because of problems in her right hip joint, the university said.
LINK : http://news.discovery.com/dinosaurs/tiger-hip-replacement-surgery-110128.html
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