A first for South Africa as UP veterinary team performs beak transplant on vulture

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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.

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News article with colour photos about what's happening at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria.
Originally published on the University of Pretoria's website

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Faculty of Veterinary Science, News media coverage of, Vulture, Beak, Transplant

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