Kansas City Zoo mourns loss of 20-year-old rhino
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Zoo is mourning the loss of a 20-year-old rhinoceros. On Friday, the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium said Imara, a 20-year-old Eastern black rhinoceros, died on ...
The Kansas City Zoo started in this building in Swope Park. What’s it look like now?
The Kansas City Zoological Society, formed in 1907, had grand ambitions—to build the largest zoological gardens in the world. And Swope Park, sitting on land bequeathed by Colonel Thomas Swope in 1896 ...
Rare creature makes ‘stunning debut’ at NC Zoo — but he wasn’t on exhibit. See him
A rare creature made his “stunning debut” at the North Carolina Zoo — but he wasn’t on exhibit. Instead, the “snow-white” ...
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The Kansas City Zoo started in this building in Swope Park. What’s it look like now?
By the late 1800s, Kansas City was beginning to see itself as a major metropolitan area. City leaders believed that to fully become one a zoo would be needed. The Kansas City Zoological Society ...
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Critically endangered rhino dies at KC Zoo after troubling diagnosis
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Zoo announced today, November 8, that a 20-year-old Eastern Black Rhinoceros named Imara has died. The zoo says that the decision to euthanize the female rhino ...
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Kansas City Zoo announces birth of Embley, joey of Martha
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There's a new joey about ready to hop around the Kansas City Zoo. The zoo announced Thursday the birth of Embley, the zoo's latest joey to mother Martha. Zoo officials are ...
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Zoo makes special wetsuit for one of their oldest penguins: ‘She’s a spicy old lady’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - An older penguin at the Kansas City Zoo is thriving after her care team crafted a custom wetsuit for her. According to Whitney Geslois, a senior animal care ...