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"Mr. Stubbs" Alligator with Prosthetic Tail Learns to Swim
It was a team effort by Phoenix's Core Institute and Midwestern University professor Justin Georgi to design a replacement rubber tail for Mr. Stubbs, an alligator whose appendage was bitten off by a larger gator.
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