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AQUARIUM Above, top: Members of the ZARD Steering Committee: John Pauley, director,
Animal Health & Welfare Operations, Brookfield Zoo Chicago; Dr. Chris Hanley,
ADIO OGY director of Animal Health, Saint Louis Zoo; Dr. Joanna Webb, ZARD manager,
DATABASE Brookfield Zoo Chicago; Dr. Sathya Chinnadurai, senior vice president,
Animal Health & Welfare at Brookfield Zoo Chicago; Dr. Michael Adkesson,
ZARD principal investigator and Brookfield Zoo Chicago president & CEO;
Dr. Jimmy Johnson, senior director of Animal Health, Denver Zoo Conservation
Alliance; and Dr. Eric Hostnik, lead ZARD radiologist, Ohio State University
Above, center and bottom: Giant anteater and a radiograph of its skull
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