Links Sh'aidaily | Photo: CNSTaiwan zookeeper Chang Po-yu – and his reattached forearm – are both doing well 48 days after a crocodile attack that severed the limb. The veterinarian was transferred on May 28 from an intensive-care unit to a regular ward, the Taiwan-based Central News Agency reported.
Chang , the zookeeper of the Shaoshan Zoo in Kaohsiung in Taiwan Province, lifted his reattached left arm and said he can feel warmth in it.
"His ward transfer today is a historic moment for all of us that we made the first reattachment case in the world to successfully reattach a crocodile-chewed arm," Sheu Sheng-Hsiung, the hospital president, said at a news conference today.
"His arm now has been almost 100 percent preserved," Sheu said. "He can still feel how warm his arm is." "My arm is now getting better except that sometimes I still feel a bit numb," Chang said while holding up his left arm, which had been chewed.
The veterinarian's left arm was severed by a 200-kilogram Nile crocodile on April 11 when he tried to retrieve a tranquilizer dart from the reptile's hide so that he could give it medication.