When Animals visit the doctor....
Giant panda Bai Yun
Meg Sutherland Smith, associate director of veterinary services at the San Diego Zoo, uses a light to seal a dental composite during a restorative dental procedure on giant panda Bai Yun at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California on this September 10, 2014. The dental procedure was needed after keepers noticed a chip in one of Bai Yuns lower canines.
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Tyson the lion
Male lion Tyson receives dental treatment at a veterinary clinic in Medellin September 15, 2011. Tyson is a 20-year-old lion living at Santafe Zoo in Medellin.
Aman the orangutan
An orangutan named "Aman" lies on the operating table before receiving eye surgery at Matang Wildlife Center in Sarawak on Borneo island May 16, 2007. A South African animal ophthalmologist performed a two-and-a-half-hour operation, described by a Matang wildlife official as the world's first cataract surgery performed on an orangutan, on both eyes of the 150 kg, 19-year-old Aman, who has been suffering from decreasing vision since 2000.
