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What was your operation?… Read More

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Were you trying to go to people to give you additional money?… Read More

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Was it just through the gate?… Read More

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How did you find the funding for the zoo?… Read More

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Tell me a little thing about fundraising. You had this initial investment, but now you had to get funds because you were talking about the difficulty. Read More

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So at that time. So people came to the zoo in the community, they paid their money, was a positive year?… Read More

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Big draw. Biggest draw in the history of the zoo at that time. Read More

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Huh?… Read More

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But today, we have a baby gorilla from that pair and potential for more. So anyway, Pensacola has a pair of gorillas and a youngster that was born there. Now, when Colossus was at the zoo, as you indicated, he was a big draw. Read More

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Ellie, our elephant and Colossus, they were big- Big issues. Big draw. So anyway. Important to the community. Edmond Russ threatened me with a gorilla SSP and all that stuff. I said, “I’ll tell you what you do, you make sure I want a pair of gorillas down there and… Read More

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No. Knocked the hell out of him. Big dummy. So we got this female gorilla in and she went by Colossus and just knocked the snot out of him. They lived together, but they never bred. But when Edmond Russ at Cincinnati zoo, he’s a collector, he really is a… Read More

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She never liked Colossus, did she?… Read More

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Yeah. She never liked Colossus. Read More

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Not sure where, was it Cincinnati?… Read More

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Might have been Cincinnati. Yeah, Cincinnati. Read More

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Cincinnati?… Read More

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I don’t know. Read More

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Where did she come from?… Read More

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I caught him and immobilized him twice because we electroejaculated him to check his sperms and things like that, he was very weak, his sperm count. Because gorillas are the biggest of all the primates, but their penises are about that long (laughs). So anyway, we tried to inseminate a… Read More