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A new study shows that the black leopards of the Malaysian Peninsula actually sport hidden spots that reveal themselves under infrared light. Infrared photos of the distinctive spotting pattern on the big cats' coats allowed researchers to identify 94 percent of the leopards.
Credit: Bill Laurance
A leopard really can't change its spots — it can only conceal them.
The black leopards of the Malaysian Peninsula may look like they have uniform dark coats, but hidden cameras with infrared light have revealed a surprise: The black cats sport the characteristic leopard spots within their dark-hued coats.
Credit: Bill Laurance
A leopard really can't change its spots — it can only conceal them.
The black leopards of the Malaysian Peninsula may look like they have uniform dark coats, but hidden cameras with infrared light have revealed a surprise: The black cats sport the characteristic leopard spots within their dark-hued coats.
Chinese surgeons have saved a hand severed in an industrial accident by grafting it on to the man’s ankle for a month before reattaching it to his arm.
The surgery was carried on a factory worker known as Zhou at Xiangya Hospital in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in central China.
Zhou had his left hand chopped off during a work accident involving a spinning blade machine and was rushed to hospital where Dr Tang Juyu, head of microsurgery at the hospital, decide to operate to give him the chance to “revive” his lost hand.
The surgical team were unable to reattach the hand to Zhou’s arm straight away as the severed nerves and tendons needed time to heal.
So his hand was sewn onto his leg in order to keep it “alive” until the arm was ready.
Doctors save man's hand by grafting it on to his leg for a month
[IMG]http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article10399662.ece/alternates/w620/handleg.JPG
The surgery was carried on a factory worker known as Zhou at Xiangya Hospital in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in central China.
Zhou had his left hand chopped off during a work accident involving a spinning blade machine and was rushed to hospital where Dr Tang Juyu, head of microsurgery at the hospital, decide to operate to give him the chance to “revive” his lost hand.
The surgical team were unable to reattach the hand to Zhou’s arm straight away as the severed nerves and tendons needed time to heal.
So his hand was sewn onto his leg in order to keep it “alive” until the arm was ready.
Doctors save man's hand by grafting it on to his leg for a month
[IMG]http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article10399662.ece/alternates/w620/handleg.JPG
