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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2 - THE NEW WORLD
As calves growing up in Africa, the elephants survived the slaughter of their families. Now, facing another death sentence, they are loaded onto a 747 headed for Florida. |
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 - ORPHANS
At Lowry Park, a keeper stays through the night with the elephants, watching for clues into how they're adjusting to their first days in captivity. Others fight to save an abandoned baby manatee, bottle-feeding him in their arms |
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 - IMPERFECT LOVE
The queen of the zoo spurns another suitor, even as her endangered species approaches extinction. The king, old and vulnerable after an upbringing among humans, clings to his throne. |
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 - WILD
On a rain-drenched river, experts pursue one of Lowry Park's most beloved manatees as he swims toward freedom. At the zoo, in an elaborate display of technology, specilist from Berlin attempt to impregnate a female elephant. |
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 - SEX - POWER - STATUS
Two Sumatran tigers circle in a potentially lethal mating dance. Lower Park's CEO - the true alpha - maps the zoo's future. |
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10 - THE HUMAN EXHIBIT
Alpha humans, in tuxes and gowns, slip through the zoo after dark for a late-night encounter with the elephants. Lowry Park goes into overdrive for the grand unveiling of a continent. |
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13 - THE CITY & THE FOREST
A handful of Lowry Park’s creatures journey to Manhattan to appear on late-night TV. A keeper wades into the Panamanian jungle in search of an endangered species. Back at the zoo, the staff is caught off guard by a momentous birth. |
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14 - CODE ONE
An exodus of keepers raises questions about Lowry Park’s direction. A coup is attempted against the king. |
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16 - DUSK
An overlooked detail leads to one of the worst days in Lowry Park’s history. The staff looks for answers. Back in Africa, so does the family that lives among the elephants of Swaziland. |
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ZOO
STORY STUDENT CONTESTS |
Elementary students
can celebrate the holiday season by
designing “ZooWrap” wrapping paper that features
the animals of Lowry Park Zoo. The winning design will be printed
and inserted into the Times as a sheet of wrapping paper for
thousands of readers to use for those last minute gifts. Click
here to enter.
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Middle & high school students: What
do you think the zoos of the next millennium will look like?
Click
here to download
entry form and enter the NIE FutureZoo contest
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Ever wondered what it would be
like to work at a zoo?
Check out our video interviews with Lowry Park
staff members.
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