A Look Back at Lowry Park Zoo
December 17th, 2007 by Alex Pickett in Flashbacks & UpdatesI just finished reading “Zoo Story”, the Lowry Park Zoo epic written by St. Petersburg Times reporter Thomas French.
Fascinating stuff.
I read the last two chapters of the series in earnest, because they describe last year’s controversy regarding the death of Enshalla, a tiger, and Herman, a chimp. French’s story provides a little more background on those events and also adds the zoo’s response to criticisms I first aired in my Oct. 25 cover story about the zoo, “Endangered Species.”
If you’re looking for more details about that contentious time in the zoo’s history, check out my story here.
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