3/10/06 Contact: Charles Martin, 334/844-3698 (marticd@auburn.edu)
David Granger, 334/844-9999 (grangdm@auburn.edu)

AU COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE TO BE PART OF ANIMAL PLANET TELEVISION SHOW MARCH 15

AUBURN - The Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine will be featured Wednesday, March 15, on the Animal Planet television network during the series "The Little Zoo That Could."
The segment will center around the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo and its recovery from three hurricanes in 2004 and 2005.

The show will air at 8 p.m. on March 15 and again three or four times during the next three days. The last time it will air is Saturday, March 18, at 4 p.m. Central time.

A film crew accompanied zoo officials from Gulf Shores on Oct. 5 as they brought a capuchin monkey to see Auburn veterinarians Drs. Todd Axlund and Jill Heatley for an MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging. The two-year-old monkey, Trey, suffered a brain injury after it was born and has been to the college three times for neurological tests.

Auburn University is a preeminent land-grant and comprehensive research institution with more than 23,000 students and 6,500 faculty and staff. Ranked among the top 50 public universities nationally, Auburn is Alabama’s largest educational institution, offering more than 230 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs.

(Contributed by Charles Martin; photo available upon request.)

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