Health & Fitness
Penguin Undergoes First-Of-Its-Kind Ankle Surgery At California Academy Of Sciences
The academy said in a statement Monday the injury is common for penguins. What's also common has been failed attempts at repair.
October 15, 2024
A slipped ankle tendon sounds like something attributed to a hulking NFL star on a team injury report.
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But for a small penguin, such an injury used to mean amputation or even death.
No more, said the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. One of the academy's endangered African penguin chicks—part of what the academy called "a recent bumper crop of baby African penguins" developed a slipped tendon in his ankle.
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Iggie, an endangered African penguin chick, on Friday, May 17, 2024, underwent the first successful surgical tendon repair in San Francisco/California Academy of Sciences via Bay City News/CBS News
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