A newborn Bornean orangutan is one of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay’s newest residents. A Bornean orangutan was born at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Florida. (Howard Lin) According to a press release, the Florida park’s latest addition, a girl, was born on April 13 via cesarean section. The baby’s weight at the time of her […]
A baby gorilla was delivered early via an emergency cesarean section at the Forth Worth Zoo last month after her mother faced “life-threatening complications,” the zoo announced. The baby — named Jameela, which means “beautiful” in Swahili — weighed just 3 pounds and 1 ounce when she was born four to six weeks early Jan. […]
A Texas zoo delivered a critically endangered baby gorilla via an emergency cesarian section, the first time in the zoo’s history. Baby Jameela, a western lowland gorilla, was delivered by a team of medical experts on 5 January at the Fort Worth Zoo, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Jameela’s mother, a 33-year old gorilla named […]
TAVARES — A judge has sentenced a man to 29 ½ months in prison for performing a C-section on a French bulldog — killing both her and two puppies — and practicing veterinary medicine without a license. Frankie H. Rivera, 36, performed the operation for the dog’s owner, Larry Colon, who held the dog down […]
Genesis Chacon was pregnant when she essentially carried her husband and toddler across countries to get to Chicago. Her healthy, able-bodied husband became paralyzed from the chest down due to a rare condition he developed while on their journey to the United States last summer. Now, the 22-year-old mother from Venezuela tends to his every […]