Marathon Surgery by UP Vets Breathes New Life Into White Rhino - University of Pretoria

Marathon surgery by UP vets breathes new life into white rhino - University of Pretoria

A veterinary team from the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science recently gave four-year-old white rhino bull Houdini a breath of life after performing fully invasive surgery for more than five hours to remove a severe obstruction from his nasal passage. Read more...

"Houdini" Saved by Nearly Six-Hour Surgery After Poaching Injury

With no playbook and high risks, South African vets came together to perform a procedure never done before… and gave Houdini his breath back.   Pretoria, South Africa (25 May 2025) – You don’t get a name like Houdini without surviving the impossible… and this four-year-old white rhino has done just that. Not once, but twice. Years after surviving a brutal poaching attack that left him with a bullet wound through the nose, Houdini faced a new bat…