Animals
Specialist Vets Travel More than 4,000 Miles to Treat Giraffe at Bedfordshire Zoo
By Jill Dando News It took eight zookeepers, six vets, five vet nurses, four farriers, and two veterinary anaesthesiologists, to perform a life-changing veterinary procedure on Bashu, a 4.8 metre (16 feet) tall, reticulated giraffe at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire. The iconic animal, patriarch of the conservation zoo’s