Worst Job In The World Nomination

Ronald Bailey | October 11, 2006

Veterinarian Mark Stetter at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom has devised a 5-foot long contraception contraption for performing vasectomies on elephants. Snipping the tubes to a bull elephant's canteloupe-sized testicles requires cutting through 2 inches of skin, a foot of muscle and 4 inches of fat and takes about 2 hours. The goal of this exercise is to help control wild populations.

Another widely distributed story dealing with animals and their sexual organs--a zookeeper in Singapore whose job it is to masturbate orangutangs and elephants daily--is not true.