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"She really liked to eat the ultrasound gel. She thinks that’s really fun."
Luna loved the ultrasound game.
The 26-year-old orangutan at Busch Gardens would come up to the mesh screening that separates the primates from the humans that care for them and happily present her belly.
Dr. Maria Spriggs, chief veterinarian at Busch Gardens, would use that play time to put an ultrasound probe on Luna’s belly and track the progress of her pregnancy.
“She really liked to eat the ultrasound gel. She thinks that’s really fun,” Spriggs said.
Luna gave birth to a female baby orangutan April 13 at the Tampa theme park. It was a rare, if not historic, event: There have only been 11 cesarean sections in the past 20 years of orangutan births in American zoos, out of 139 births of the critically endangered species, according to the Association of Zoos & Aquariums.
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