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BROOKFIELD 1970
ZOO BY THE
The Society’s Sarasota Dolphin
NUMBERS Research Program is created.
today
49 years of operation, making
it the world’s longest-running
study of a wild dolphin population
23 Ph.D. students, interns,
and postgraduate trainees
40 volunteers
in her habitat—she was too large to move August 2018: Veterinarians
to the veterinary hospital, so staff brought successfully implanted silicone
a CT scanner to her instead. NeuroLogica, stents into Layla’s nasal passages.
a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, These stents hold the nasal passages
donated the use of its battery-powered, open, allowing for normal airflow
portable CT scanner for the procedure, and preventing further growth of
and more than 40 zoo staff worked to help abnormal tissue.
make the procedure a success.
October 2018: Layla celebrated
This scan showed that one of Layla’s her 8th birthday! Zoo staff and
unerupted upper molars was infected, guests helped her celebrate this
resulting in abnormal tissue growth. special day with a nutritious
Veterinary staff were able to come up with birthday cake (featuring fruits and
a plan to surgically remove this tissue. vegetables) prepared just for Layla.
May 2018: Veterinary staff performed Society staff would not have
a life-saving surgery on Layla that partially been able to perform this life-
removed the obstruction—this was the saving work without the consulting
first surgery of its kind ever performed on veterinarians and companies that
a rhinoceros. Presurgical planning was volunteered their staff’s time and
greatly enhanced through the use of a 3D donated equipment to help with
model of Layla’s skull, donated by Vizua Layla’s case. Thank you! █
and TeraRecon.
Photos taken by the Chicago Zoological Society’s Sarasota
Several weeks later, Layla received a Dolphin Research Program under National Marine Fisheries
second CT scan to discover the extent of Service Scientific Research Permit No. 15543.
the remaining infection. Another surgery
took place immediately following this scan.
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