Sound Stories. Sound Voices.
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
You are on the KUOW archive site. Click here to go to our current site.

What it's like to perform surgery on a 450-pound gorilla

Vip the gorilla needed emergency hernia surgery. Dr. Andrew S. Wright explains his process, from inspecting Vip in the smelly gorilla enclosure to hurrying away as Vip woke up from his anesthesia.

Dr. Wright is the director of the UW Medicine Hernia Center and latest surgeon to operate on Vip, the Woodland Park Zoo's silverback gorilla. 

Subscribe to The Record podcast.

Year started with KUOW: 1985 – 1986, 1991 – 2004, 2012