Clare Balding has signed up to host a new BBC One show about cutting edge veterinary surgery.
Balding and her co-host Steve Leonard - who launched his career after appearing in Vet School - will travel around the world to find out about the latest operations, which have never been seen on television before.
The procedures are often adapted from human medicine and include keyhole brain surgery for a moon bear in Laos called Champa and a skin graft for white rhino Thandi, who was attacked for her horn and is now being treated by a plastic surgeon who usually operates on people.
Elsewhere, vets will give dolphin Fuji a prosthetic tail after it was destroyed by an infection, and a giant panda from China will be given an Mri scan to find out why she is behaving oddly.
"Being an animal lover, I jumped at the opportunity to be...
Balding and her co-host Steve Leonard - who launched his career after appearing in Vet School - will travel around the world to find out about the latest operations, which have never been seen on television before.
The procedures are often adapted from human medicine and include keyhole brain surgery for a moon bear in Laos called Champa and a skin graft for white rhino Thandi, who was attacked for her horn and is now being treated by a plastic surgeon who usually operates on people.
Elsewhere, vets will give dolphin Fuji a prosthetic tail after it was destroyed by an infection, and a giant panda from China will be given an Mri scan to find out why she is behaving oddly.
"Being an animal lover, I jumped at the opportunity to be...
- 7/2/2014
- Digital Spy
Students in their final year at the Royal Veterinary College will be followed for a new BBC Two series.
Young Vets will focus on what happens when the new vets get their first hands-on experience, Broadcast reports.
The ten-part series will see the students in surgery and in the field, as well as focusing on some of the animals being treated.
Emma Read, from the production company behind Young Vets, said: "Our filming gives an insight into the incredible depth of training undertaken by remarkable young vets, with an abundance of heart-warming and compelling stories about the terrific characters of the students as well as the animals they're treating."
Young Vets will invite comparisons to the BBC's popular 1990s series Vet School, which followed students such as Trude Mostue and Joe Inglis.
Production has already started on Young Vets.
Young Vets will focus on what happens when the new vets get their first hands-on experience, Broadcast reports.
The ten-part series will see the students in surgery and in the field, as well as focusing on some of the animals being treated.
Emma Read, from the production company behind Young Vets, said: "Our filming gives an insight into the incredible depth of training undertaken by remarkable young vets, with an abundance of heart-warming and compelling stories about the terrific characters of the students as well as the animals they're treating."
Young Vets will invite comparisons to the BBC's popular 1990s series Vet School, which followed students such as Trude Mostue and Joe Inglis.
Production has already started on Young Vets.
- 3/6/2014
- Digital Spy
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