Sloth gets a C-Section to save baby

The Kids Saving the Rainforest Sanctuary in Costa Rica found an injured pregnant sloth after she fell out of a tree:

The sloth was badly injured… The baby had breached, or flipped over in the mother’s uterus. The only way to save it was to remove it via a C-section. The 30-minute procedure saved both the mother and child’s lives, although the baby sloth is currently struggling with some lung problems. This is the first known sloth C-section.csectionsloth2Csectionsloth

Read the entire article here.

2 thoughts on “Sloth gets a C-Section to save baby

  1. Sarah

    Unfortunately, I’ve now found out that
    “the baby had a heart murmur and possible lung problems, and was not feeding properly. It died on 8 October, a week after its birth. The mother seemed to be improving but then had a stroke. She died the day after the baby.” (http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141013-baby-sloth-born-by-caesarean?ocid=fbert). Sad news.

  2. […] Trull, the photographer, sloth rehabilitator (including being involved in the famous 1st-ever sloth C-section), and creator of my favourite blog Primatography (also on Tumblr) is now trying to publish her […]

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>