POWELL, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus Zoo veterinarians and Nationwide Children’s Hospital doctors teamed up for a surgery on a mandrill in early September. It may seem like an unlikely pairing, but the ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — A two-year-old chimpanzee at the Sedgwick County Zoo is recovering after suffering a serious injury during a normal social interaction within her troop that required rare and ...

Mwelu, a 34-year-old resident chimpanzee at Zoo Knoxville, is on the road to recovery after undergoing “groundbreaking” surgery to remove a tumor from his spine, zoo officials said. It is “believed to ...

A Knoxville chimpanzee has made medical history. Mwelu - called Lu for short - is believed to be the first chimpanzee ever to have spinal surgery to remove a tumor, according to Zoo Knoxville. This ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Chimpanzee from Zoo Knoxville has undergone what might be the first documented spinal surgery performed on its species after zookeepers noticed symptoms that led ...