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Elephants' pudgy posteriors is focus of Lincoln zoo research
- Erin Andersen
- Jun 2, 2013
- Jun 2, 2013
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An elephant mother and calf are photographed in South Africa. Nearly half of the elephants in U.S. zoos are infertile, due in part to obesity. That infertility is leading to a national crisis. Estimates are elephants in zoos could be extinct within 50 years if something is not done to address the animals' health issues.
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Wildlife endocrinologist Kari Morfeld stands in front of a freezer that holds more than 3,000 blood specimens from 290 elephants living in 74 U.S. zoos. She is researching why elephants in captivity are so overweight and the health problems that come with that obesity. Her lab, the Wildlife Conservation Research Center at the Lincoln Children's Zoo, is the first of its kind in the world.
- FRANCIS GARDLER/Lincoln Journal Star
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Kari Morfeld’s desk is littered with hundreds of 8-by-10 glossy photographs — each a close-up of an elephant’s derriere.
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