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Penguin has surgery to remove egg

Photos of a Georgia Aquarium penguin that had surgery to remove an egg. Images of a Georgia Aquarium penguin.

WARNING -- SOME PHOTOS MAY BE CONSIDERED GRAPHIC. This X-ray shows the unfertilized egg inside Bat, a Georgia Aquarium penguin.

The penguin fell ill earlier this month at the aquarium. An X-ray found that she was carrying the egg.

Greg Bossart (center), the head of veterinary medicine at the aquarium, decided to induce labor so the egg could be removed.

Bossart had to use "a 14-gauge needle to puncture the egg." It was then crushed and extracted. "Bat is doing much better," said Dave Santucci, an aquarium spokesman.

In this photo from 2007, penguins frolic in their enclosure at the aquarium.

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WARNING -- SOME PHOTOS MAY BE CONSIDERED GRAPHIC. This X-ray shows the unfertilized egg inside Bat, a Georgia Aquarium penguin.

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