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3 unusual facts about Detroit Zoo


An Apology to Elephants

Derby tells the reunion story of Wanda, an elephant from Detroit Zoo, and Gypsy, from one of the circuses from Illinois, who were together in a circus in 1980 and bought together again in 2005.

Gretchen Kramp

In 2000, she produced a mural for the entrance of the National Amphibian Conservation Center at the Detroit Zoo.

Walter Briggs, Sr.

Briggs also helped found the Detroit Zoo in 1928, and personally paid for many of its first exhibits.



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