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Longing for love and companiship as she pines in her lonely pen in an isolated corner of Riverdale Zoo, beauty, a year-old doe of the exotic Barasingh(...)
Longing for love and companiship as she pines in her lonely pen in an isolated corner of Riverdale Zoo, beauty, a year-old doe of the exotic Barasingh(...)

Longing for love and companiship as she pines in her lonely pen in an isolated corner of Riverdale Zoo, beauty, a year-old doe of the exotic Barasingh(...)

Date8/12/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: Longing for love and companiship as she pines in her lonely pen in an isolated corner of Riverdale Zoo; beauty; a year-old doe of the exotic Barasingha species of India. Cocks her altentibvely. Zoo officials are trying to raise $76 $1;000 to buy a mate for her from a U.S.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0116434F
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