BEANIE the albino wallaby was back at Flamingo Land today after surgery to remove a cataract from an eye.
The nine-month-old animal underwent the 90-minute operation yesterday at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, and returned home last night to the zoo near Pickering.
It was the first time such an operation had been conducted on a marsupial in Britain.
Beanie is understood to have come through the anaesthetic well, although it will be several weeks before it is possible to tell if he has regained his vision.
He needed the surgery because his sight was so poor that he kept bumping into other wallabies and fences in his enclosure.
Meanwhile, Flamingo Land head gardener Colin Braham is continuing to recover in hospital following his fall from a monorail.
Mr Braham's condition at Scarborough Hospital was said by a spokeswoman today to be "improving".
The 59-year-old gardener at the zoo fell up to 15 feet from the monorail around the baboon enclosure on Monday morning.
He is thought to have either slipped or lost his balance while he was trying to prune some trees. He injured his head and knee in the fall.
Updated: 12:32 Wednesday, July 11, 2001
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