One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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While some of the overlaps and parallels are obvious – we know how much DNA we share with primates, the first pig heart has been transplanted into a human – there is so much more that we have learnt from the animal world. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? For example, studying kangaroos, in particular the female’s three vaginas, has improved in-vitro fertilisation success rates. he thought to himself. It all started with a Hob Nob. Bulk packed. Includes nearly 300 color photographs and over 120 herbal remedies that you can make yourself.  For animal science has so much to teach us about human medicine.