Posted on 07/05/2007 9:21:10 PM PDT by gpapa
Mary Zwo was six weeks old, neglected by her mother and abused by her father, when she was admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit at a university hospital. Mary was dehydrated, with low blood sugar and at risk of hypothermia. Doctors quickly put her in an incubator. Mary Zwo is a gorilla.
"Gorilla babies are similar to human babies," the German zoo director in the western German city of Munster explained to der Speigel magazine. Her human caretakers ("caregivers"?) thought the care in a veterinary clinic wouldn't be good enough.
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WTF? For a GORILLA?
Well, the doc said, “You’re the gorilla my dreams.”
Welllll, gorillas are expensive animals and a lot more intelligent than some people. I don’t see anything paricularly wrong with going to extremes to save one.
There was a case a few years ago when a small boy fell into the gorilla pen at a large zoo. The fall left him unconscious and his parents were unable to reach him before a female gorilla did. They were horrified when the gorilla picked their son up and walked away with him in her arms. They were ecstatic though when she laid him down at a doorway to the outside where a zookeeper picked him up. A mother is a mother, even if she has a hairy back.
FMCDH(BITS)
I think this is a silly article. A gorilla is an expensive zoo animal, and it just makes sense that they’d make a good effort to keep a baby gorilla alive. One wouldn’t expect an ordinary vet to have the facilities to care for a gorilla.
I expect there’s plenty of room in German maternity wards, given that they’ve got a death-spiral birthrate.
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