Turtle Recall

Chinese Doctors Perform Unusual Caesarean

Doctors at a Chinese hospital have performed a caesarean section - on a turtle. Keepers at Chengdu City Zoo sent the turtle, called Dabao, to hospital for an X-ray which showed an amazing 14 eggs. The turtle hid inside its shell so the anaesthetist had to wait patiently and then act quickly when she popped her head out. It took more than two hours for the doctors to open the shell with an implement normally used to open human skulls. They removed all 14 eggs and then resealed the shell with epoxy resin. The eggs have been buried in sand to await hatching.