Look at the pictures of this little guy in the second link. Many AJC readers are sending in donations to help.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/henry/stories/2008/04/10/zebra_0411.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstabhttp://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/metro/zebra0410/<snip>
The zebra looked fine from a distance, but when rescuers got close, they found the young male was severely injured. Their vet said he probably fell from a truck or trailer and then was hit by another vehicle.
The group, which takes in homeless animals and children and has more than 1,000 animals at its center — including lions, tigers and bison — called the Auburn University vet school and made arrangements to have the zebra examined.
"The police kept referring to him as evidence, so we decided to call him 'Evidence,' " said Diane Smith, assistant to the director at Noah's Ark, which is about 30 miles south of Atlanta. "He's going to have a permanent home with us."
They loaded Evidence into their van — after removing most of the seats — and headed to Auburn. Smith said the Auburn vets decided Evidence, estimated to be two to three months old, needed surgery to survive. His pelvis was crushed, and he had nerve damage and a severed urethra, which had to be rerouted.
"The laceration on his rear was about 10 inches across," said Dr. Huichu Lin, the school's equine section chief.
Lin acknowledged the Auburn vets don't see a lot of zebras, so "we treated him like a horse." She said in addition to the pelvic fracture, the 225-pound baby also had a number of soft tissue and muscle injuries.
The surgery was Wednesday morning, and by Thursday Evidence was walking around and eating. Still, he has a long recovery ahead, Lin said, adding she expects him to stay at the vet school for a week or two.
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