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Oklahoma City Zoo caring for two rare species of fish
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden is now home to endangered leopard darters and Arkansas River shiners. According to the Zoo, both species have challenges in the ...
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Gayla Peevey's song 'I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas' helped bring a hippo to OKC Zoo
On Dec. 24, 1953, a 700-pound "baby" lumbered from her moving crate into the awaiting water at Oklahoma City's Lincoln Park Zoo. "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" had reached No. 24 on the ...