Fabian and Chester are tiger cubs, born Easter Sunday at Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation in Seminole, FL. A local veterinarian quickly discovered they both had a problem - cleft palate, a hole in the roof of the mouth that makes it difficult for babies of any kind to suck, swallow and grow. Tiger cubs born with this defect usually don't survive, and might ordinarily have been euthanized on the spot. But not this time. On the Web site for All Children's Hospital, Dr. Woodman found pediatric surgeon Michael Gallant, who had been repairing cleft palates in children for 31 years.
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