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Fancy footwork: How different are the feet of zoo and wild giraffe?
Cooperative training helps zookeepers care for zoo animals. For giraffe, much of this training focuses on hoof work, because just like fingernails, hooves grow and need regular trims. Our projec...
Liza Dadone
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Help us pioneer stem cell therapy for giraffe!
Arthritis is common in geriatric giraffe. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is uniquely suited to help find better arthritis treatments, as we have a large herd of 16 giraffe that are trained for voluntary ...
Liza Dadone
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
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Thermal images of a giraffe's legs. This giraffe has arthritis and associated inflammation in the R front leg. Stem cell therapy might help.
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MSCs from elephant blood used to treat arthritis in an elephant at CMZ. Clinical signs improved and inflammation decreased after therapy
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Our Zoo's giraffe are trained to let us trim their hooves. Help support our project so we can understand how wild giraffe feet compare.
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Training allows our giraffe to participate in their own health care! Here a giraffe positions for an x-ray, so we can check for arthritis.
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