Prosthetic Beak Surgery for Endangered Penguin (video)

 

Published on Sep 10, 2015

 

We’re going behind the scenes to film groundbreaking beak surgery that will give an African penguin a second chance at life in the wild. After being hit by a car and left with a fractured, disfigured beak, the bird will get a prosthetic replacement – but there’s a catch. It needs to make a 900-mile journey to a specialist centre first.