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Article: Take a look inside zoo history
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2009
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Most of the approximately one million visitors a year go to Hogle
Zoo come to see the animals. After all, that's the facility's focus.
However, there's a colorful and lengthy history behind many of the
features at the state's largest zoo, going back almost eight decades
to 1931.
It's a history visible before zoo guests even get inside the
gates.
Look closely at the two bronze sculptures of cougars by the
waterfalls at the east side of the zoo's front gate. These same
mountain lion models used to be perched atop the historic granite
pillars entrance gate to Hogle Zoo, along Sunnyside Avenue, from
1947-2000. The felines, created by Avard Fairbanks, were refurbished
and then incorporated into ...