Incredibly, amateur roadside C-sections are not unprecedented in rural Canada, not even for animals taken in by the Smithers-based Northern Lights Wildlife Society. Acting “on instinct,” Steele cut the fawn from its mother. The search quickly led to the nearby Northern Lights Wildlife Society, which took in the fawn for rehabilitation. fawn is healthy and “drinking her bottle like a champion” after a passing Albertan calmly saved its life by performing an emergency C-section on its dying mother. But, as he got close, he saw the baby peeking out from a tear in its mother’s side.

Source: National Post June 15, 2016 19:30 UTC