WHEN DERRICK CAMPANA IS FITTING AN ANIMAL FOR A PROSTHESIS (an artificial body part), usually the animal can sense he is trying to help them. But once he was trying to fit a 2,000-pound camel with braces to support its front legs, and the camel would not cooperate.
“I’d never worked with a camel before,” says Campana, an animal prosthetics practitioner. “Just his sheer size, strength, his personality … he was kicking and moving a lot, so you could tell he was scared and didn’t
