Cleveland – Veterinarians got a lesson at Cleveland Clinic from a physician when it comes to installing a birth-control device in an orangutan.
One doctor, Judith Volkar, had a major hand in it. After she showed several vets how to put in a new birth-control device, she was found herself watching as Albert Lewandowski did the procedure on an orangutan named Kitra. Nobody in the United States has ever done it before to an orangutan.
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo curator Geoffrey Hall said the zoo may want Kitra to breed someday, but at the moment they don't want her to do so, which led to this surgery before she was introduced to four other orangutans.
Kitra was awake within two hours with no apparent side-effects.
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