Wildlife vets give rare hornbill 3D-printed beak in world-first: 'It has never been possible before'

A male southern ground hornbill at Amsterdam's ARTIS Zoo received two custom 3D‑printed plastic prosthetic beak pieces, attached with titanium screws, after breaking both upper and lower beak parts. The procedure, performed with Utrecht University veterinarians, is the first documented case of replacing both beak sections in a bird.

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