I think that I'm beginning to see what happened to Hannelore: First, she gets to know the cute little Yak-lets. Then one of the cows needs help because of a breech presentation birth (a serious problem with ungulates from what little I know of them) and Hannelore was the only person available to help. She couldn't let the cute widdle baby die! So, she had to drive herself completely out of her comfort zone and keep going, even though her brain must have been screaming (and she might have been too) to save a cute little life.
I think that there could easily be a funny consequence of this anecdote. At some point in the future, one of Hannelore's friends (Cossette, maybe?) goes into labour in CoD and Hannelore tries to take charge. It turns out that most of the lessons she learned in Mongolia
do not cross over the ungulate/primate boundary very well.
Well, Hanners' aversion to bodily fluids IN GENERAL is probably now less.
Oh, I think that they are probably
worse but she's proved to herself that, if properly motivated, she can power her way through them. She then probably needs to be pressure-hosed all over at least ten times to be clean again. She'll do it to herself if no-one else will do so out of this silly concern that it will tear off her skin!
Brings to mind All Creatures Great And Small
Yeah, the travils of bovine assisted birth in that book are really good for wiping away any illusions you may have about the romance of the farmer's life!