Slideshow: A day in the life of a zoo pathologist

On a trip to Washington and Oregon to learn more about the challenges that vets and others are facing in their efforts to save the endangered pygmy rabbit, deputy editor Ivan Oransky stopped in to see Michael Garner, the zoo pathologist who examined the pygmy rabbit evidence.

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On a trip to Washington and Oregon to learn more about the challenges that vets and others are facing in their efforts to save the endangered pygmy rabbit (see this slideshow), deputy editor Ivan Oransky stopped in to see Michael Garner, the zoo pathologist who examined the pygmy rabbit evidence.

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