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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Wed Feb 11, 2015, 05:12 PM Feb 2015

Injured toucan to get prosthetic beak

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The Costa Rican bird, Grecia, was attacked by a group of young people and has had to be hand-fed since. Now a group of 3D printing services in that country are volunteering to create a new beak for the bird. People have created such beaks for eagles and penguins previously, but this may be the first one made for a toucan.

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Injured toucan to get prosthetic beak (Original Post) shenmue Feb 2015 OP

A beak certainly is important to a toucan! Curmudgeoness Feb 2015 #1

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

1. A beak certainly is important to a toucan!

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Wed Feb 11, 2015, 08:51 PM

Feb 2015

It is the best feature.....even if you don't consider it is needed for food intake.

The most shocking part of this story is that the bird was "attacked by a group of young people".....OMG, how sick.

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