DFO’s Animals: Ailing Gorilla

Veterinarians operate the Budapest Zoo’s oldest gorilla Liesel in Budapest, Hungary, earlier today. The surgery became needful due to a progress of tumor, which could cause the death of the ape. During the three hours long intervention, human doctors with assistance of the zoo’s veterinarians checked the 32 years old, female, low land gorilla’s fibroids in the uterus, which is anatomically very similar to the human body. Worldwide any surgeries on gorillas are extremely rare; and this was the first time that this kind of intervention became mandatory in Hungary. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, POOL)