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Animals at the Zoo (51 images)



"Bulan," a 5-month-old Bornean sun bear cub, made its public debut at the San Diego Zoo with its mother Marcela on March 1, 2007. Only two sun bears have been born in North America, the other at the San Diego Zoo in 2004. (UPI Photo/Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo)
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SLP2001032001- 20 MARCH 2001- ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA: A small female Grevy's zebra named Ashley, walks with her mother Zephra in the antelope area in the St. Louis Zoo, in St. Louis, Missouri, March 20, 2001. Born on February 28, 2001 and weighing in at 110 pounds, the offspring is the first for the mother who arrived in St. Louis 3-1/2 years ago, on loan from the Cameron Park Zoo in Texas. cc/bg/Bill Greenblatt UPI
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As the Southwest swelters in a heat wave, elephants at the San Diego Zoo are keeping cool with a snow day in San Diego, California on September 7, 2006. Twenty-four thousand pounds of chipped ice was blown into their enclosure and was stuffed-full of 160 pounds of the elephant’s favorite fruits, vegetables, acacia branches and was topped off with gelatin to give the unique treat added flavor. (UPI Photo/ Ken Bohn/Zoological Society of San Diego)
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The St. Louis Zoo has announced that Junior, a popular male orangutan belived to be 44 years old, was euthanized after keepers saw that his arthritis had become a problem in St. Louis on March 30, 2006. Junior was the third oldest male in the national Orangutan Species Survival Plan population. (UPI Photo/Carol Weerts/St. Louis Zoo)
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