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In April an Associated Press profile of North Carolina State University veterinarian Greg Lewbart reported that he is one of the few in the country who treat pet fish. Dr. Lewbart’s fees range from $100 for a checkup, including X rays, to $250 for surgery. He said business is good because it’s so difficult to keep tropical fish alive.
Professor Lance Workman of Glamorgan University near Cardiff, Wales, reported in April that his sonographic research shows that robins found around Sussex chirp in a different dialect (including pitch, lilt, and intonation) than robins in Wales, and that each assumes a defensive posture when exposed to the other’s chirping.
In April in Zaire, Bernadette Obelebouli, 34, gave birth to triplets at the rate of one per day during a 60-mile journey on foot. And in Vancouver, British Columbia, Joanne March, 29, gave birth prematurely to the first of her triplets on April 30, but doctors decided to leave the other two until they were healthier, and they were born on June 14.
I Don’t Think So
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
