A baby gorilla was born last week at England's Bristol Zoo through cesarean section. C-sections are performed extremely rarely on animals, but the procedure saved the mother, 11-year-old Kera, and the baby. A gynecologist, Dr. David Cahill, came in to deliver the baby, and though he'd performed the procedure hundreds of times on humans, he'd never done a C-section on a gorilla, reported ABC News.
Cahill had worked with the gorillas before, so it made the experience even more meaningful. "Having been involved with the care of these gorillas over the years, with some trepidation and excitement, we were invited to the zoo to assess the well-being of Kera, because she was in late pregnancy and showed some signs of being unwell," explained Cahill, according to ABC News. She was suffering from preeclampsia, a condition which can cause organ failure, reported Fox News.
