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Hungary gorilla recovering after rare surgery

2 hours ago

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Budapest Zoo says a 32-year-old female
gorilla has undergone gynecological surgery, the first such operation
in Hungary and rare even worldwide.

Spokesman Zoltan Hanga says veterinarians and doctors carried out the
procedure late Thursday night based on the diagnosis that Liesel, who
came to Budapest in 1989 from Germany's Frankfurt Zoo, may have a
malignant tumor on her right ovary.

Hanga says no tumors were found during the procedure, which required
Liesel to be fully sedated for three hours. She will be kept under
observation and apart from the rest of gorillas at the zoo for about a
week.

More exams will be needed to determine why the mother of three —
Dango, Gorka and Ebobo — has not given birth since 2000.