Word: mandavu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Gershuni's everyday kind of patient. But the orthopedic surgeon, working early one morning in a large barn at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, was unfazed by his jumbo task: to place a cast around the fractured leg of a twelve-year-old African elephant named Mandavu...
...Mandavu had tumbled into the moat around her compound one night and broken two bones of her lower right rear leg. When the leg did not heal, it seemed that Mandavu might have to be put out of her misery-even though she was in the twelfth month of a 21-month pregnancy. So zoo officials decided on an operation that had been performed only once before...