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Health
Melissa Meehan

Ostrich Blinkie's eyeful of a problem

Blinkie received a specialist CT scan after developing a mysterious eye infection at Werribee zoo. (AAP)

An Ostrich's eye is five times bigger than a human's, so when Werribee Open Range Zoo resident Blinkie developed a mysterious infection, big machinery was needed.

The female ostrich was taken to the University of Melbourne's U-Vet Werribee Animal Hospital for a specialist CT scan capable of producing a three-dimensional image of the large eye.

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