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From SMH:
Cute as a button, this baby male gorilla was delivered by caesarean yesterday at a zoo in Florida, in the US.
Vets decided to perform the surgery after an examination of the mother raised concerns about her baby's welfare.
Gorilla caesareans have become more common at zoos in the past six years, as keepers try to increase the number that survive birth. Forty per cent of gorillas die at birth or in infancy.
Florida's newest baby gorilla is being cared for by staff at the Busch Gardens zoological hospital until he can be reintroduced to his mother. He has yet to be given a name.
He will be totally dependent on his mother for several months, but like all baby gorillas will grow and develop physical skills twice as fast as a human baby.
And I think, how can anyone look at this and dismiss evolution ;)
Cute as a button, this baby male gorilla was delivered by caesarean yesterday at a zoo in Florida, in the US.
Vets decided to perform the surgery after an examination of the mother raised concerns about her baby's welfare.
Gorilla caesareans have become more common at zoos in the past six years, as keepers try to increase the number that survive birth. Forty per cent of gorillas die at birth or in infancy.
Florida's newest baby gorilla is being cared for by staff at the Busch Gardens zoological hospital until he can be reintroduced to his mother. He has yet to be given a name.
He will be totally dependent on his mother for several months, but like all baby gorillas will grow and develop physical skills twice as fast as a human baby.
And I think, how can anyone look at this and dismiss evolution ;)
