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Baby Giraffe Born At Memphis Zoo
By: Rae Lyn Hartley
Memphis, TN- The Memphis Zoo staff welcomed a baby reticulated giraffe born Friday, August 29, 2008 around noon.
Mom “Marilyn” and Dad “Kenya” are the proud parents of the zoo’s newest arrival. Giraffe keeper Richard Meek says Marilyn is already being a good mother. Meek says she [...]
Stray bullet bruises Memphis Zoo visitor
By Megan Harris (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal
Originally published 06:07 p.m., July 26, 2008
Updated 06:10 p.m., July 26, 2008
A woman visiting the Memphis Zoo this afternoon was startled when she was hit and bruised by a stray bullet.
The visitor told zoo workers that she heard a ping that sounded like metal hitting [...]
Calf would be Memphis Zoo’s first
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Zoo officials are making plans for the first birth of an elephant in the zoo’s century-old history.
African elephant Asali has been pregnant 10 months, but won’t deliver for another year.
The 21-year-old elephant was impregnated with semen from bulls from zoos in Pittsburgh and Jacksonville, Fla.
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