Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Pet Prosthetics

I think it is absolutely incredible that scientists have been able to develop prosthetics for our pets. Because domestic pets are typically treated like family members, many have gone to great lengths to improve their lives after an unfortunate incident resulting in the loss of a limb. I am hoping that by developing these prototypes that the same approach can be taken towards other types of animals. Here is a video of a more recent dog leg prosthetic. 

1 Comments:

Blogger danchannel said...

This is amazing. A grad student did her final project a few years ago on the feelings of animals. She had grown up on a cattle farm. When there were messed up cows because of genetics or something and they would live, the cows would "commit suicide" by jumping into the canals. All very facinating

February 19, 2008 at 6:14 PM  

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