North Carolina Elephant May Be Fitted for CLs

"Only after the second cataract operation on C’sar the elephant’s gargantuan eyes did the veterinarians at the N.C. Zoo decide that maybe, just maybe, the idea wasn’t so crazy after all: Contact lenses for an elephant," according the News-Observer. "Big ones, of course. After all, C’sar, a 38-year-old African bull elephant, weighs about 12,000 pounds and sports a pair of peepers nearly as big around as racquetballs. He was the zoo’s first elephant, and his hulking form has been a mainstay there since 1978." Read more.

Elephant Has Cataract Surgery, Fitted with CLs

"It was a jumbo-sized problem that needed a tusk force of the brightest minds in animal medicine. C’sar the African bull elephant kept bumping into things after cataracts left him with blurry vision," reports Metro.co.uk. "This week the 38-year-old animal had pioneering eye surgery to correct the problem – before vets can fit him with mammoth contact lenses." Read more and see the picture of the surgery.