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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

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So the day that he was coming out, the press was there, everybody was there, TV, everybody. Colossus comes out, and he’s been living in this glass cage on concrete for all of his life. He comes out, the door opens, he walks out, pulling his towel, had his blanket… Read More

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I said, “No.” He said, “Well, you better get one, we own a gorilla.” And that’s how quickly it went and I got busy. We built that exhibit for what $80,000, the whole thing. It’s a big yard with walls and pool and things to climb on and indoor heated… Read More

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Then he calls me and says, “You got a place to put a gorilla?… Read More

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Yeah. About apprentice and the auction. Anyway. Okay, I’ll start there. They were going to auction this gorilla, the animals off and a friend of ours, well, one of the shareholders in the zoo, he bought the gorilla for $37,000. Read More

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You did?… Read More

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Thousand Oaks, California probably. They supplied movie animals. To bring a gorilla, the world’s largest low land gorilla into Pensacola was the first gorilla ever in the whole state except for down south like Tampa. So when we came in, it was a big operation. And really interesting is that… Read More

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It was our greatest popular year. Tell me about him, tell me who he was, how you acquired and tell me what his importance was. Colossus was a girl that was purchased in a pet shop in New York by this big pet shop company in New York, I can’t… Read More

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