A young rhino named Amara at England’s Knowsley Safari recently underwent the world's first surgery for a fractured leg.

Veterinary medicine is a difficult field at the best of times, considering that the majority (but not all) of their patients can’t talk. It becomes even more difficult when serious health issues require surgery,

A group of 10 specially trained animal experts took part in a world-first surgery on a rhino to prepare its broken leg.

Amara, an 800 kg southern white rhino at a safari park in northwest England, has received what has been described as a "groundbreaking" medical operation to help heal a broken front leg.

It seems like the setup to a joke: how do you perform leg surgery on a southern white rhinoceros’ leg? The truth is the same as the likely punchline: very carefully. That was the case for Amara, a two-year-old rhino living in an English zoo,