I can find no information about this place in Iowa. I don't know if it was a private facility or a municipal zoo. It was sure a "creative" use of rocks to give it a "naturalistic" look!!!!!
Friday, May 30, 2008
Were was this place in West Bend, Iowa????
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Wade G. Burck
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Wade, I don't know anything about this zoo, but in January of last year I was looking into another now-defunct zoo in Iowa. Ranjit (white son of Ramana & Kesari) had four wives at Omaha: Soma, Obie(Tony's hetero younger sister), Tanya, and a tigress that I was told was known only as "the Iowa female". Paul told me that he was told that her name was Muscatine, and she came from Weed Park Zoo, now closed. I made several calls to Muscatine trying to find any history of her: to the Parks & Rec Dept, the reference library, and anyplace else that had any old zoo records, and no one had any record of a tigress going from Weed Park to HDZ. The granddaughter of this tigress named Silver passed away at HDZ in September without ever having offspring. Thus, "the Iowa female" did not contribute to the gene pool. I'm starting to agree with you that unless they left descendants and contributed to the present-day gene pool, it is not worth trying to track down every single descendant of Mohan.
Mary Ann
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