US EditionRare monkey gives birth months after major foot surgery
Masaya, a 15-year-old roloway monkey, gave birth weeks after surgery saved her foot and preserved her fertility amid severe wild population decline, conservationists said.
- Masaya, a 15-year-old Roloway monkey, gave birth to daughter Lagertha at Chester Zoo just months after pioneering surgery saved her foot from amputation.
- Veterinary teams at the University of Liverpool Small Animal Teaching Hospital removed a golf-ball sized mass from her foot, saving the limb with only one toe amputated during the procedure.
- "This was the last chance to save Masaya's foot," said Rachel Burrow, vet and lecturer at the University of Liverpool, noting the successful surgery enabled normal behaviors including holding offspring.
- Born two weeks ago, Lagertha is "already curious about the roloway monkey habitat," according to primate keeper Zoe Edwards, who reported Masaya is "parenting magnificently."
- Roloway monkeys are critically endangered, with fewer than 2,000 remaining in West Africa due to poaching and habitat loss, making Chester Zoo one of only two UK locations where they survive.
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Endangered monkey gives birth after groundbreaking Chester Zoo and University of Liverpool operation
A critically endangered roloway monkey at Chester Zoo has welcomed a newborn infant just months after groundbreaking surgery prevented the amputation of her foot.Masaya, 15, gave birth to baby Lagertha following a complex procedure last summer that saw zoo veterinarians join forces with surgical specialists from the University of Liverpool.The operation, which had never previously been documented in roloway monkeys, required the team to adapt ex…
Surgeons Perform First-Ever Surgery for Critically-Endangered Monkey Weeks Before She Gave Birth
GNN often stays abreast of births among the Chester Zoo’s incredibly diverse residents of rare and endangered species, but few have ever been cuter or rarer than this Roloway monkey. Chester Zoo is one of only two places in the UK that Roloway monkeys can be found, a spokesman said, and the breeding population there […] The post Surgeons Perform First-Ever Surgery for Critically-Endangered Monkey Weeks Before She Gave Birth appeared first on Goo…
The photos and videos of the interaction of the 15-year-old monkey with her offspring generate tenderness in the networks.There are only 2,000 specimens of her species worldwide.
Endangered monkey gives birth after pioneering operation to save foot
Roloway monkey Masaya welcomed infant Lagertha at Chester Zoo. An endangered monkey whose foot was saved from amputation thanks to pioneering surgery has given birth. Fifteen-year-old roloway monkey Masaya welcomed infant Lagertha months after a complex operation to remove a golf ball-sized mass from her foot. Despite finding no previous examples of the surgery on roloway monkeys, vets at Chester Zoo teamed up with surgeons from the University o…
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