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. . . Just make sure he's fast asleep. Okay, Charlie, count backwards 100 and you won't feel a thing. Just lay yourself down here on the table and we(...)
. . . Just make sure he's fast asleep. Okay, Charlie, count backwards 100 and you won't feel a thing. Just lay yourself down here on the table and we(...)

. . . Just make sure he's fast asleep. Okay, Charlie, count backwards 100 and you won't feel a thing. Just lay yourself down here on the table and we(...)

Date1/10/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: . . . Just make sure he's fast asleep. Okay; Charlie; count backwards 100 and you won't feel a thing. Just lay yourself down here on the table and we'll have that cast off your foot in a jiffy. But we'll have to put another one on till that heals. You lift on the left there; keeper Lee Perenach; and you on the right; Dr. Bill Rapley; 'cause Charlie's heavy--a 120 pound lowland gorilla isn't light. And the Metro Zoo staff wants you to get well soon.
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Object NumberTSPA_0116269F
A patient pachyderm. Is this elephant camera-shy, or just showing her best side? Likely she's just patiently waiting to be fed at the Metro Zoo. She a(...)
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6/22/1962
Just Bison their time
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These warm spring days are just the thing for lazin' in the sun, and residents of Metro Zoo were among the first to find out. A picture of total relax(...)
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Blitzen won't budge till Dec. 24. 'Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the Metro zoo, most creatures were stiring, except for Santa's crew(...)
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Now, where did all those peanuts go?, Nine-year-old Karen Hatchard feeds the newly acquired elephant at Mississauga's Jungle Park Zoo. An Ontario Muni(...)
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Home on the range - in this case Rattle-snake Conservation area in Halton county - these buffalo appear to be thriving far from their native rangeland(...)
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New children's zoo opens in scarborough, Scarborough mayor A
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