In this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 photo, Dr. Judith Volkar of the Cleveland Clinic, left and Dr. Mike Selig of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, right, work together as an contraceptive implant is put into Kitra, a 10-year-old Bornean orangutan at the Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland. An orangutan at a Cleveland zoo has become the first such animal in North America to receive an implanted birth control device. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Chuck Crow) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; ONLINE OUT
In this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 photo, Dr. Judith Volkar of the Cleveland Clinic, left and Dr. Mike Selig of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, right, work together as an contraceptive implant is put into Kitra, a 10-year-old Bornean orangutan at the Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland. An orangutan at a Cleveland zoo has become the first such animal in North America to receive an implanted birth control device. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Chuck Crow) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; ONLINE OUT
CLEVELAND (AP) ? A Cleveland Clinic women's health specialist has made a house call at the zoo to demonstrate how to fit an orangutan with a newer brand of implanted birth-control device.
The Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/xTqClI ) the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Kitra is the first orangutan in North America to get the device called Implanon. It's about 1 ? inches long, slightly thicker than pencil lead and meant for humans.
General Curator Geoffrey Hall says the zoo doesn't want the Bornean orangutan to breed, at least not now. The procedure by Dr. Judith Volkar went well and the animal was back on her feet within hours.
A spokesman says Kitra had previously been fitted with an implanted device commonly used by the zoo, but developed a negative reaction.
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