ABCNEWS.com : Arctic Squirrel Surgery Could Yield Medical Solutions:
"Ryan Long, an undergraduate student at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, strode across the shrubby tundra to the trap at the top of the small slope and gently picked it up to inspect the squirrel.
'Oh, look at that! It's a new one,' he said, noticing the squirrel had no scar on its belly.
A few hours later the hefty little animal was lying flat and unconscious on a table under a scalpel.
Long was working with Brian Barnes, a biologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks who has been trapping and performing surgery on these bulkiest of all squirrels "
"Ryan Long, an undergraduate student at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, strode across the shrubby tundra to the trap at the top of the small slope and gently picked it up to inspect the squirrel.
'Oh, look at that! It's a new one,' he said, noticing the squirrel had no scar on its belly.
A few hours later the hefty little animal was lying flat and unconscious on a table under a scalpel.
Long was working with Brian Barnes, a biologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks who has been trapping and performing surgery on these bulkiest of all squirrels "
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