Endangered Gorilla Mom and Her Baby Saved by Zoo Veterinarians With Rare Emergency Surgery
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C-sections are fairly common for humans, but not so common at all for gorillas.
That’s what makes the birth of a baby western lowland gorilla at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo such a rare spectacle. According to NBC News, the newborn male was delivered via cesarean section after veterinarians determined his mother, a 29-year-old gorilla named Olympia, was experiencing complications that made a natural birth unlikely.
Olympia was already five days past her due date when an ultrasou
That’s what makes the birth of a baby western lowland gorilla at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo such a rare spectacle. According to NBC News, the newborn male was delivered via cesarean section after veterinarians determined his mother, a 29-year-old gorilla named Olympia, was experiencing complications that made a natural birth unlikely.
Olympia was already five days past her due date when an ultrasou
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