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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 07:41 AM
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When labor is hairy, she is called ( C-section.... a hairy one :) :) :)
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/11/20/Tampabay/When_labor_is_hairy__.shtml

Sorry no picture,, St. Pete Times sunday had picture of Mommy..:)

When labor is hairy, she is called

She has presided over countless births. So when Busch Gardens needed someone to give a C-section to a gorilla . . .

By ALEXANDRA ZAYAS
Published November 20, 2005

TAMPA - On a typical day, Dr. Catherine Lynch is the busy director of the division of general obstetrics and gynecology at the University of South Florida. The Tampa doctor teaches medical students and has a private practice in the USF Physicians Group.

Friday wasn't a typical day for Lynch.

"Yesterday was pretty wild," she said.

Literally.

She was one of three doctors from USF and Tampa General Hospital who delivered Busch Gardens' baby gorilla, the first born in the park in its 46 years.

Complications made it necessary to perform a caesarean section on Kishina, the 33-year-old gorilla mom.


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