It Started With A Sheep Named Crystal

Public Health Insight by PHI Media

Mar 10, 202628:16Science & Medicine

Healing people requires healing animals and the systems we share. Dr. Hope Ferdowsian traces that conviction from a sheep named Crystal on an Oklahoma farm to sanctuary chimpanzees with PTSD, to asylum seekers she's...

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