Seeing the words "Emperor Mammoth fetus" confirmed Yang Lin's previous guess.
The Emperor Mammoth he had seen in the ice field had indeed been reborn here in a different form. Perhaps this was the reason for the mother elephant's difficult labor.
After all, the body size of an Emperor Mammoth was far greater than that of modern elephants, and even the fetus would be larger than a normal Asian elephant fetus.
Understanding this, Yang Lin suddenly felt a sense of difficulty.
After some thought, he said to Veterinarian Wang beside him:
"I have a general understanding of the situation. It appears the fetus has experienced excessive nutrition, causing it to be much larger than a normally developed fetus."
"If it continues to develop in the mother's body, childbirth will become even more difficult in the future. Therefore, my recommendation is to perform a cesarean section immediately."
Upon hearing Yang Lin's words, Veterinarian Wang immediately showed admiration on his face.
"As expected of Director Yang, you identified the problem with just one glance."
"In that case, I will go and prepare the necessary tools for the cesarean section."
With that, Veterinarian Wang mounted his horse, and when he returned, he brought two nurses and several medical kits.
By this time, the tourists had also somewhat grasped what was happening.
"Fetal malnutrition? Could it be that we fed it too much?"
"Do you even need to ask? Of course. The animals at Xihong Zoo already have excellent food, and with the tourists feeding them as well, excessive nutrition is perfectly normal."
"Then how big must this baby elephant be?"
"I never expected to be fortunate enough to witness the birth of a new life today."
...
Under the excited gazes of the tourists, an impromptu cesarean section began in an open space in the free-range area.
Everyone waited silently for this miracle of life, and the tourists unconsciously fell silent.
With Veterinarian Wang performing the surgery and Yang Lin assisting, after half an hour, a baby elephant, nearly the size of a water buffalo, was successfully born at Xihong Zoo.
When the tourists first saw the baby elephant, they were immediately stunned by its massive size.
"My heavens, is this thing really a newborn baby?"
"It must weigh hundreds of pounds at birth."
"Indeed, the strongest land animal."
"No wonder the mother elephant almost had a difficult birth. How could such a large creature be born through normal delivery?"
"But why do I feel like this baby elephant is a little... off?"
"Why is this baby elephant also growing hair?"
...
Not only did the tourists notice this anomaly with the baby elephant, but even Veterinarian Wang, who had personally pulled the calf from the mother elephant's body, couldn't help but widen his eyes upon seeing its appearance.
High shoulders, a head shorter than a normal Asian elephant, but these were not the main points. The key was the dense and long brown fur covering its body.
Normal Asian elephants also had fur, but it was never this long, nor did it cover their entire body.
"Director Yang, this baby elephant seems a bit unusual. Is it perhaps too much nutrition? Why is its fur so long?"
After examining it carefully, Veterinarian Wang finally couldn't help but ask Yang Lin beside him.
Yang Lin, however, remained very calm.
"What's so strange about that? Aren't there people who are born covered in hair?"
"Perhaps it has a similar atavistic genetic condition, turning it into an ancient woolly mammoth."
As soon as Yang Lin finished speaking, Veterinarian Wang seemed to recall something and immediately looked at the baby elephant, which was struggling to stand up, again with intense scrutiny.
After a moment, he exclaimed in surprise:
"Holy cow, it really is exactly like a woolly mammoth! This little guy even has tusks!"
Perhaps it was due to his excessively loud voice, but the surrounding tourists who had gathered to watch also heard him.
"Woolly mammoth, I knew this baby elephant looked a bit peculiar."
"Is it the woolly mammoth that went extinct tens of thousands of years ago? My goodness, the mother elephant gave birth to an ancestor."
"No wonder it's so big at birth. So it's a mammoth. Is this a genetic mutation, or was the father a mammoth?"
"This is unbelievable. Have the newborns at Xihong Zoo also become abnormal?"
"I never thought extinct mammoths would reappear on this planet in such a form."
"Director Yang, what animal did you use to mate with it? How could it give birth to a mammoth?"
"It was worth it, it was worth it. The ticket price today is well spent. I can now be considered one of the first people on this planet to see a live mammoth."
"I have a premonition that this baby elephant will become the new internet celebrity of Xihong Zoo."
...
At this moment, the tourists could only express their amazement.
Even though Xihong Zoo had already seen so many mutated animals before—white tigers, white bears, white snakes, black tigers, golden tigers—none of them could compare to the mammoth calf at this moment.
After all, mammoths were prehistoric creatures from tens of thousands of years ago, and this was no longer a simple mutation.
As the tourists raised their phones and cameras to take pictures and record the mammoth calf, the calf, which had been struggling, suddenly stood up.
In the next second, under the watchful eyes of countless people, it actively approached its mother elephant and rubbed its forehead against hers.
Clearly, at this moment, it was unaware of its extraordinary birth; it only knew that the creature before it was its mother.
The mother elephant also did not treat her calf differently because of its peculiar appearance. She continuously tried to stand up and touch her child with her long trunk.
Unfortunately, due to the recent labor, she lacked the strength to do so.
This scene naturally moved the tourists.
The bond of blood had created a wondrous connection between species from two different eras at this moment.
Seeing how weak the mother elephant was, Yang Lin and Veterinarian Wang quickly began to treat and suture her wound.
During this process, Yang Lin secretly used the Intermediate Healing skill.
While it couldn't make the mother elephant stand up immediately, it could at least significantly accelerate her recovery.
After the mother elephant was successfully transported to the veterinary hospital, the news of Xihong Zoo successfully giving birth to an ancient mammoth began to spread online.
Initially, most netizens thought it was fake news, as the extinction of mammoths was a well-known fact.
However, as complete footage of the mammoth calf's birth, along with photos and videos, were gradually released, those who had expressed doubt immediately fell silent.
This was then followed by a different kind of commentary.
"Oh, it's Xihong Zoo, then it's understandable."
"If it happened elsewhere, I would think it was faked, but considering it's Xihong Zoo, it's not that hard to accept."
"Okay, a mammoth is here. When will you mutate a saber-toothed tiger?"
"I heard chickens evolved from dinosaurs. Call me when Xihong Zoo hatches a dinosaur from an egg next time."
"Enough said, I'm buying tickets. I feel like the whole internet has seen the mammoth, and I'm the only one left."