09.13.2009 9:00 pm

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Phil the Gorilla has been dead for more than 50 years. Phil lived at the St. Louis Zoo’s Ape House for only 17 years. Most St. Louisans alive today never knew the plus-sized primate, who is said to have weighed more…

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04.12.2009 4:05 pm

Keeping Hope (the polar bear) alive (in our memories)

By Eddie Roth

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Hope, the St. Louis Zoo’s last polar bear, died at the end of March at the age of 23.

Last spring, Kevin Horrigan and I produced a video about Zoo president Jeffrey Bonner’s long term vision (zoo 2033),…

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