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Our zoo is fantastic. As most, know, however, the zoo in St. Louis is on another level (until Cal reads this.)
St. Louis has a chimp exhibit that is fascinating.
They also have wild ass.
Somali wild ass, no less.
Apparently, There isn't much wild ass left in America., and quite a few reside in St. Louis.
I think our zoo would do well to pursue wild ass.
Chimps are cute, but who could turn down a vacation to see the wild ass in Memphis?

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/st...enDocument

Somali wild ass born at Zoo
By Diane Toroian Keaggy
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
04/23/2008

The St. Louis Zoo welcomed its first newborn Somali wild ass, an extremely rare wild horse Zoo curators are struggling to save in the desert areas northeastern Africa.

The foal was born earlier this month to mother Fataki and sire Abai and boasts a gray body, white belly and horizontal black stripes on her legs. She will grow to be four feet tall at the shoulder and weighs about 600 pounds.

The Zoo is home to seven Somali wild ass; only 27 live in North American zoos. Another 1,000 live in the wild, but they are threatened by the political unrest in the region and hunters, who use their meat for food and native medicines.

They also must compete with domestic livestock for access to shrinking grazing grounds.

TiggerFan Wrote:Apparently, There isn't much wild ass left in America.

Is this a reference to the closing of Platinum Plus?

Lol covingtontiger, when I opened the thread I figured it had something to do with the purple church!

I remember way back my friend and his two brothers worked at the zoo selling snow cones and what not during the summer. I went up there one day to hang out and they took me to see a horse named Henry.

You could yell his name really loud and it would make him go nuts. He would start running around and bucking at the other horses. I wonder if Henry is still around?