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Ohio orangutan 1st in US with birth control device
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- An orangutan at a Cleveland zoo has become the first such animal in North America to receive an implanted birth control device.
The Plain Dealer reports that a Cleveland Clinic women's health specialist made a house call at the zoo Tuesday to demonstrate how to implant the contraceptive. It's about 1 1/2 inches long, slightly thicker than pencil lead and is meant for humans.
General curator Geoffrey Hall says the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo doesn't want the young Bornean orangutan named Kira to breed, at least not yet. The procedure went well, and Kira was back on her feet within hours.
In exchange for her help, the Clinic's Dr. Judith Volkar was given a backstage tour of the zoo's more exotic animals and got to sit on a giant tortoise.
The Plain Dealer reports that a Cleveland Clinic women's health specialist made a house call at the zoo Tuesday to demonstrate how to implant the contraceptive. It's about 1 1/2 inches long, slightly thicker than pencil lead and is meant for humans.
General curator Geoffrey Hall says the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo doesn't want the young Bornean orangutan named Kira to breed, at least not yet. The procedure went well, and Kira was back on her feet within hours.
In exchange for her help, the Clinic's Dr. Judith Volkar was given a backstage tour of the zoo's more exotic animals and got to sit on a giant tortoise.
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- An orangutan at a Cleveland zoo has become the first such animal in North America to receive an implanted birth control device.
The Plain Dealer reports that a Cleveland Clinic women's health specialist made a house call at the zoo Tuesday to demonstrate how to implant the contraceptive. It's about 1 1/2 inches long, slightly thicker than pencil lead and is meant for humans.
General curator Geoffrey Hall says the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo doesn't want the young Bornean orangutan named Kira to breed, at least not yet. The procedure went well, and Kira was back on her feet within hours.
In exchange for her help, the Clinic's Dr. Judith Volkar was given a backstage tour of the zoo's more exotic animals and got to sit on a giant tortoise.
ok here we go...
A) the right to life folks are gonna love this one.
2) suppose it was an ugly orangutan?...but then male orangutans may have access to paper bags.
III) "sit on a tortise"? really.
should put them in all the Monkeys.
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should put them in all the Monkeys.
I see what you did there.
Dr. Zaius would probably disagree
Oh...I saw the title of this topic, and thought it was about the First Lady.
no river rat, it said "Ohio Orangutan"
not "DC Orangutan"[:D]
Maybe its a pilot program for the dead beat welfare people here in ohio who keep pumping out kids like a Guppy having babies.[}:)]
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Oh...I saw the title of this topic, and thought it was about the First Lady.
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