Photographs and posters, 1977-1979.

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Photographs and posters, 1977-1979.

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Color photographs of the 1977 zoo walk and posters advertising the Whale of a Walk (April 1977), Walk with the Animals (April 1978), and Zoo Walk (1979).

6 items in oversize folder.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 6749216

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Minnesota Zoological Garden

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Minnesota State Zoological Board

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In August, 1977, the zoo captured two beluga whales in the Churchill River near Hudson's Bay, Canada. The two whales, a male named Big Mouth and a female named Little Girl, were the major attractions when the zoo opened in 1978. In 1984, Big Mouth injured his jaw while chewing on a feeding platform or water pipe; x-rays in May, 1986, showed the infection had moved into the bone. On July 10, 1986, surgery was performed to shorten and reconstruct his jaw. The zoo announced on April 15, 1987 that B...