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Saint Louis Zoo Announces Birth of 251-Pound Baby Elephant (PHOTOS)

It's a girl! A 251-pound baby girl. The Saint Louis Zoo announced this weekend that Ellie, the zoo's 42-year-old Asian elephant, has successfully given birth to a baby. The calf is 38 inches tall, weighs 251 pounds -- and is healthy and adorable. "Mother and baby are both doing very well," Marth ... More >>

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The Most Adorable Picture You Will See Today

This is Raja the elephant. He lives at the Saint Louis Zoo with his three daughters, Jade, Maliha and Kenzi. Today's his twentieth birthday. The zoo held a birthday party in his honor this morning. There were, of course, presents. But what the hell do you give an elephant who (presumably) has every ... More >>

[VIDEO] St. Louis Zoo Chimps Torment Stray Raccoon, Launch It Through the Air

According to the user who posted the video on YouTube, this incident happened last Friday at the St. Louis Zoo.  You can hear one lady say, "Poor thing. Let it go, let it go!" They're chimps. They probably ate it. 

Saint Louis Zoo Accused of Racially Insensitive Halloween Decorations

Halloween is approaching quickly and the St. Louis Zoo is decked out for their "Boo at the Zoo" event for kids. They've got pumpkins, hay bales, graveyards, and even ghosts that fly from the trees. "It's beginning to look a little spooky around here!" the zoo's Facebook account said yesterday, acc ... More >>

[VIDEO] Two Hyenas "Doing It" at the Zoo

Hyenas do more than laugh. Sometimes, they get right down to business. The following video was just uploaded yesterday to YouTube. It was apparently taken at the St. Louis Zoo, although we don't know the date of the incident. Our favorite comment came from a lady, off-camera, who says: "Sometimes th ... More >>

Cri Cri the Harbor Seal Is Dead

The Saint Louis Zoo announced that Cri Cri the harbor seal has died at the Indianapolis Zoo. She was in transit to St. Louis from London, Ontario's Storybook Gardens with three other harbor seals when handlers discovered two of those seals, Nunavut and Atlantis, were dead. The truck carrying them de ... More >>

At Last, The Mystery of the Saint Louis Zoo Polar Bears Has Been Solved!

The New York Times ran a big article yesterday about the challenges of modern zookeeping featuring, as its prime example, the Saint Louis Zoo. Instead of merely keeping animals for display, zoos today are expected to act as agents of conservation for animals whose numbers are dwindling in the wild. ... More >>

Missouri Reintroduces Endangered Burying Beetle, the Most Metal Insect of All

​The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Saint Louis Zoo plan to reintroduce the Burying Beetle to the Wah'kon-Tah Prairie in the near future, reestablishing the insect as a vital part of Missouri's ecosystem for the first time since the 1970s. Obviously, beetles aren't as glamorous a creature ... More >>

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March of the Penguins

Hellspawn Arrive at Saint Louis Zoo

Some call them snot otters, others old lasagna sides, grampus and devil dogs, but we prefer the colloquial term hellbender. If you're going to name a salamander, you might as well make it sound way more badass than it is. Hellbenders live in Missouri's rivers. Or, rather, they used to live in Misso ... More >>

Area Wolves Seek Transportation for the Holidays

This holiday season while families gather and write down their Christmas lists, Rachel Broom, director of development at the Endangered Wolf Center (6750, Tyson Valley Rd, Eureka) will continue her search for transportation for the 42 wolves, wild dogs, and foxes that call the center home. Located ... More >>

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Baby Elephant at the Zoo Finally Gets a Name: Kenzi

Katie Pilgram, St. Louis ZooShe has a name! It's Kenzi.​The internet has spoken! She shall be known as Kenzi.As we reported last month, the St. Louis Zoo was seeking public input on a name for their new baby elephant. The Asian elephant calf was born June 27th to Rani and Raja, and weighed in at 2 ... More >>

Awwwh! Saint Louis Zoo Elephant Gives Birth to Baby

Katie Pilgram - St. Louis Zoo​The newest addition to the Saint Louis Zoo arrived around 1:15 p.m. Friday when Asian elephant, Rani, gave birth to to the calf pictured above. It's the second baby for the 15-year-old Rani, who birthed her daughter Jade in 2007. "Mother and baby are bonding very well ... More >>

The Birds & The Bees & The Wild Asses

St. Louis' Own Groundhog "Pippi" Sleeps Through Groundhog Day

Image viaNo groundhog falsely predicted Snowmageddon...are they more reliable than STL meteorologists?​An early spring it shall be, according to Punxatawney Phil and many other national groundhogs who failed to see their shadows. What about St. Louis' own four-legged predictor? Sadly, our very own ... More >>

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[VIDEO] Teens Go Ape Over Gorilla Attack at St. Louis Zoo

A group of teenagers got a King-Kong-sized thrill recently at the Saint Louis Zoo.  "OMG! They're mad at each other!...I hope they fight!" P.S. Check out the 1:25 mark of the video as a silverback looks to be blowing kisses at the teens before throwing a sucker punch.

St. Louis Zoo Elephant Miscarries, Fuels Criticism of Pachyderm Exhibit

One might say the same about the zoo's track record with elephants.​The St. Louis Zoo yesterday announced that one of its Asian elephants, Ellie, miscarried her 9-month-old fetus this week. Elephant pregnancies generally last 22 months. Zoo officials said they were not all that surprised by the mi ... More >>

Animal Rights Group Condemns Saint Louis Zoo for Elephant Pregnancies

Group says no elephant sex is safe at Saint Louis Zoo.​California-based In Defense of Animals made a formal complaint today to the U.S. Department of Agriculture over two recent elephant pregnancies at the Saint Louis Zoo. The zoo announced this week that Asian elephants Ellie and her daughter, Ra ... More >>

Oh, No He Didn't! Saint Louis Zoo Elephant Knocks Up Mother and Daughter!

​Hey, Jerry Springer. We have your next guests, though you're gonna need a shovel when they come on stage. 'Cause let me tell ya, there some dirty shit going with this pachyderm threesome.  If you haven't heard yet, young Asian elephant playa Raja has impregnated his 38-year-old pen mate, Ell ... More >>

Hoosier Watching Could Get a Lot Less Interesting at Saint Louis Zoo

Saint Louis Zoo patron or wild animal?​The next endangered species at the Saint Louis Zoo could be the notorious redneck known as the "zoosier" (zoo hoosier). Why's that? 'Cause the zoo and the city's other free tourist attractions -- the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri History Museum and St. Lou ... More >>

This Week In St. Louis Elephant-Related News

Contributed by Kim BarksThis poor Elephant doesn't have a name, but anybody can suggest one for a $7.00 donation going to BackStoppers. ​What do an auto body shop, the St. Louis Zoo, an animal rights group, Mardi Gras and the Caribbean have in common?They're all part of this week's Elephant relate ... More >>

Local Fifth Grader Publishes Book About Elephant's Triumphant "Escape" to Saint Louis Zoo

For elephants, one would think the Saint Louis Zoo would be a place to escape from, not to. Earlier this year, In Defense of Animals, an animal rights organization, named the zoo to its "Hall of Shame" on its Top Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants list. A month later, one of the elephants, Jade, contracte ... More >>

Get Out of the Gutter

Meanwhile, in Kansas City

photo by Keegan Hamilton While the Saint Louis Zoo just lost its only polar bear last week and may not be able to get a replacement bear for several years, the Kansas City Zoo is about to spend $11 million on a polar bear exhibit that's set to open next year.Via the KC Star: The climate-control ... More >>

No One Saw This Coming: PETA Urges Zoo to Close Polar Bear Exhibit

flickr.com/photos/79947165@N00The zoo's polar bear confines.The other day we noted how the Saint Louis Zoo's last polar bear, Hope, died this week from cancer at the age of 23. Now today...wait for it...that's it...just a second...more...okay, here it comes...PETA announced that it is urging the zoo ... More >>

Isn't It Time the Saint Louis Zoo Rethinks Its Position on Elephants?

www.helpelephants.comThis morning's Post-Dispatch has a rather alarming story buried back on page D3. Another of the Saint Louis Zoo's elephants has been diagnosed with a potentially deadly strain of herpes. According to the daily, the two-year-old Asian elephant Maliha is currently showing no sympt ... More >>

R.I.P. Cinder: Saint Louis Zoo Chimp Dies at Fourteen

Cinder, the chimp at the Saint Louis Zoo whose most distinguishing feature for visitors was her alopecia, is dead at fourteen. She was known as the "Hairless Chimp."The naked ape. What does that mean?Carol A. Weerts, www.stlzoo.org Some, certainly, laugh. I think of my father (click the link and scr ... More >>

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The Saint Louis Zoo's new baby cheetahs are cute; its lawsuits are not. Plus: Jerry Lewis Bey writes his memoir from prison, a single girl sounds off, and a local blogger finds herself in deep doo-doo.

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