A HIPPO in Our TIME
Each year on the Central West Coast of FLORIDA, a hippo born at the San Diego Zoo that has lived in Florida since 1966, receives extra visitors at a birthday bash.
If you watched TV in the 1960s you may have seen Daktari. On that show you may have seen a hippo, [...]
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How FLORIDA’s FAMOUS ANIMALS originated.
On Florida’s lower west coast in Bradenton in 1966 my family & I met a manatee.
Today this same manatee is still living in Bradenton. He is known as Snooty.
I never forgot his story.
And his story, from baby reportedly born in captivity to his work in educating schoolchildren & helping visiting sick & injured [...]
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