"Dancing with rhinos," the South African veterinarian joked as he supported the head of his staggering, nearly 2-ton patient, an injured rhino woozy with sedatives. "We don't know the anatomy of the legs. "We don't even know what antibiotics to give it, we don't know what painkillers to give it, at what dosage," said Dr. Johan Marais, an equine and wildlife surgeon at the University of Pretoria who works with Steenkamp. Last week, veterinarians fixed medical elastic bands across the sedated rhino's wound, a new treatment using equipment provided by a Canadian company, Southmedic. The facial reconstruction of Hope, whose gaping wound left her sinus cavities exposed, is a see-saw of progress and setbacks.

Source: ABC News May 25, 2016 08:45 UTC