Lissa doesn't need a bright ribbon to designate her a cancer survivor, she's a rhino after all. Where would she put it? Instead it is what's absent on Lissa that attests to her battle – unlike her herdmates, Lissa is missing the pointy protuberance that should sit at the end of her snout.
Her horn is but a stump.
Four years ago, Lissa went under the knife – and hand shears and electric saw – eight times as surgeons hacked it off. They were in a race to excise a mushed basketball-sized tumor the likes of which no wildlife authorities in the world had ever seen, much less tried to cure.
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