흰색 황새의 성형수술

철사줄에 걸려 부리가 부러진 일본에서의 특별 보호조 흰색 황새가

식사를 못하여 체중이 내리고 그로인한 스트레스로 그를 먹여줄 짝과도

함께하지 않았던 흰색 황새가 치과의사의 도움으로 치과보철 기재로

부러진 부리를정형하는 성형수술을 행했다고..

Japanese stork gets prosthetic beak

Associated Press

TOKYO - An oriental white stork whose beak snapped off last year after getting stuck

in metal wiring got a replacement Friday, a news report said.

Taisa had lost weight since he broke his beak last November because he found it difficult to catch live fish,

and no longer got along with his female breeding mate due to stress, Kyodo News agency quoted keepers

at Akita's Omoriyama Zoo as saying.

Dentist Toshiaki Chiba attached a plastic resin prosthetic to the end of Taisa's broken beak using

a dental adhesive, according to the report.

The birds are a specially protected species in Japan, but the country's last wild oriental white stork

died in 1971. In September, a breeding center in western Japan released five captive-bred birds

into the wild in an effort to revive the species