AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Jan. 26 (UPI) — A 45-year-old Asian elephant at a Netherlands zoo has become the first of her species in Europe to be outfitted with a contact lens.
Officials with the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam said the elephant, Win Thida, had to undergo surgery and be outfitted with a contact lens after her eye was badly injured during a fight with another elephant, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.
“I was called in when the zoo reported that Win Thida’s eye was painful and streaming,” veterinarian Anne-Marie Verbruggen said. “The main difficulty was her height.
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