The rhino with glue-on shoes and other surprising true stories of zoo vets and their patients
A collection of real-life stories journeys inside the world of zoo veterinarians, who recount their experiences with exotic zoo animals, from raising an orphaned baby beluga whale to helping an anorexic eel regain its appetite.
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New York, N.Y. :
Delacorte Press,
2008.
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| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The rhino with glue-on shoes : |b and other surprising true stories of zoo vets and their patients / |c edited by Lucy H. Spelman and Ted Y. Mashima ; foreword by Jack Hanna. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Close connections -- Tough guy Hondo (the chimpanzee) -- The moray eel and the bartender -- Earring Boy (deer fawn) -- Kachina's bones (black bear) -- Raising Kayavak (beluga whale) -- Technology helps -- The rhino with glue-on shoes -- Pandas in their own land (Yaloda the giant panda) -- When whale sharks fly (Norton the whale shark) -- Patch (Australian hobby falcon) -- Anesthesia for a frog (Frances, he poison dart frog) -- Getting physical -- The recapture (bison/buffalo) -- A camel in the snow -- The bikers, the students, and the crocodile -- Tracking a snared elephant -- Partners in the mist: a close call (Rwanda mountain gorilla) -- The Katrina dolphins (Atlantic bottlenose dolphin) -- Puzzles and mysteries -- The limping Bengal tiger -- Sliced bananas in Jell-O (giant Pacific octopus) -- On the horn of a dilemma (rhinoceroses) -- The bugs have bugs? (beetles) -- Death of a lemur: an unsolved mystery -- Baker D (a Pacific bottlenose dolphin) -- Crossover -- Tulip (an orinda goldfish)-- Empathy (a red kangaroo) -- Polar bears STAT -- Water-breathing dragons (a weedy sea dragon) -- Amali's example (a Masai giraffe) -- Alfredito the hippo. | |
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