3D-printed beak saves rare bird from cancer

A cancer-stricken bird living at ZooTampa has a second lease on life thanks to her caregivers, specialists from the University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital, surgeons from the University of Florida and 3D printing technology.

Crescent is a 25-year-old, three-foot-long great hornbill - native to Nepal, Bhutan, India, Southeast Asia and Sumatra. Numbers are decreasing; the International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies great Indian hornbills as “vulnerable.” When Crescent’s caregivers at ZooTampa noticed a peculiar lesion on the base of her casque (the helmet-like growth over a hornbill’s upper beak), they feared it was squamous cell carcinoma.

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Colette Bancroft to receive 1st Roy Peter Clark literary award Friday

There’s good news for book lovers. The Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading, consigned to virtual-land since 2020 because of Covid-19, will return – live and in person - this year.

The newspaper’s books editor, Colette Bancroft, says the 30th annual event will take place Nov. 12 at the Palladium Theater – a shorter run than in previous years, at a new venue, and with between six and 10 authors giving talks and selling their wares (instead of the usual 30-plus).

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