Rare C-section births a male gorilla at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo
A baby western lowland gorilla born at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle was delivered via a rare cesarean section performed by a medical team more accustomed to human births. The newborn weighed 5.4 pounds and is healthy along with his mother Olympia; another mother in the troop has begun caring for the infant while Olympia recovers, and zoo officials note that fewer than a dozen gorilla C-sections have been done worldwide, with none previously at Woodland Park.