And this is the best way to castrate a hippo

You make out what voice unmanageable ? bowdlerise an unwilling two - ton animate being . You know what sounds more hard ? Castrating an unwilling two - ton animate being that can hide its testes inside its body,“where they can switch around and even forswear away from a vet ’s seizing forceps during surgical operation . ”p

The ability to stash and reposition one ’s testicles is among the many enviable skills of the hippo . According to ScienceNEWS ’ Lizzie Wade , it ’s an ability that has bedeviled zoo veterinarians ( who regularly castrate hippos “ in hopes of controlling the size of captive population and reducing the number of fight between the males of this aggressive species ” ) for closely to 100 years . Now , a squad of vet working in Europe and Israel have published an in - profundity , “ nearly unfailing ” method for hippo castration in the later military issue of Theriogenologythat habituate sonogram and careful massage to overcome what they characterize as the “ spatially dynamical nature of the usual hippo nut . ” Helpfully , they have included instance ( see above ) . Wade has a good ballad - description over at ScienceNEWS.Do yourself a favor and check it out .

[ TheriogenologyviaScienceNOWviaBrian Switek ]

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