Surgeons Gave a Gorilla Skull Surgery
Mizani, a 12-year-old gorilla at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, needed surgery never before performed on a gorilla. Five hours, 20+ specialists, full recovery.
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Human surgeons just performed the world's first skull surgery — on a gorilla. And he's already back to normal.
This spring, keepers at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park noticed something was wrong with Mizani, a twelve-year-old western lowland gorilla — he wouldn't fully open his mouth, wasn't eating right, and kept holding his head. A CT scan found the answer: a dangerous infection spreading toward his skull.
So the zoo called in surgeons from UC San Diego Health — the same hospital that operates on people — for a procedure no one had ever performed on a gorilla before. Five hours. More than twenty specialists. One patient who couldn't tell them where it hurt.
Today, Mizani is back to eating, playing, and acting completely like himself.
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Sources: nbcsandiego.com · kpbs.org
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