Orangutan is first in North America to get implanted birth control device
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS January 25, 2012 6:52PM
In this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 photo, Dr. Judith Volkar of the Cleveland Clinic, left and Dr. Mike Selig of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, right, work together as an contraceptive implant is put into Kitra, a 10-year-old Bornean orangutan at the Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland. An orangutan at a Cleveland zoo has become the first such animal in North America to receive an implanted birth control device. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Chuck Crow) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; ONLINE OUT
Updated: February 27, 2012 9:54AM
CLEVELAND — An orangutan at the Cleveland Zoo has become the first such animal in North America to receive an implanted birth control device.
A Cleveland Clinic women’s health specialist made a house call to the zoo to help veterinarians implant the contraceptive.
“We as humans have received so much from the animals,” Dr. Judith Volkar of the Cleveland Clinic said afterward. “It’s good to be able to give something back.”
AP
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