Pics: Polly the pancake tortoise has surgery

Polly the African pancake tortoise is recovering at Bristol Zoo, after having an hour-long operation to save her life.

It was during a routine check up that vets at the zoo first discovered Polly was very poorly.

They x-rayed her, and found she had a bladder stone inside her, which could have killed her within weeks.

But a team of expert vets performed an operation to remove the stone, which was the size of a small egg!

Five-year-old Polly is now bandaged up and recovering well in the zoo's Reptile House.

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