Contraceptives working too well for animals in the zoo


Birth control drug has health repercussions for zoo animals.

Isis the lioness arrived at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo six years ago with a job: give birth. Brookfield hadn’t seen lion cubs in decades.

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