Ajani doesn't just have happy feet, he has happy eyes now, too.
That's because the 14-week-old African black-footed penguin, blind since birth due to cataracts, was able to see for the first time Thursday.
Nicole MacLaren, a veterinary ophthalmologist at Eye Care for Animals in Salt Lake City, performed successful bilateral cataract surgery on the penguin, a resident of the Tautphaus Park Zoo in Idaho Falls.
Source: Deseret News
Monday, January 19, 2009
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