March 18, 2025 • 14 mins
Steve Taylor, assistant director of the Louisville Zoo, made friends with elephant Punch back in 1975. It was Steve's new job and he had no idea he'd stay for half a century. Kyle Shepherd, a 14 year Louisville Zoo associate, joined Steve on WHAS Radio to tell the tale of the upcoming departure of both of our beloved elephants Mikki and Punch.
There is an upcoming public celebration for Mikki and Punch and the Louisville Zoo would love to add your elephant photos to their collection.
Details within the interview audio. Enjoy!
There is an upcoming public celebration for Mikki and Punch and the Louisville Zoo would love to add your elephant photos to their collection.
Details within the interview audio. Enjoy!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I got buddies in from the Louisville Zoo. Kyle Shepherd,
longtime friend and queen of the Louisville Zoo. It's good
to see you friends as always.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Much think you good to see you as always.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Steve Taylor's here as well. He just started working at
the Louisville Zoo. Let's see, Oh, it was a half
century ago. I feel about that, bro, I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Isn't a great tell everybody. After forty nine years, I
think I've decided to make it a career.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You really should tell me about what kind of a
guy you were when you walked in the zoo there
in the nineteen seventies. Were you wearing some bell bottoms?
Were you saying groovy.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Man, groovy far out?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, buddy, because John Denver would use those phrases, and
people go, abs, let's be what we're supposed to say.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Absolutely, that was the time. I love the seventies. So
you walk into the zoo in nineteen what seventy seventy five? Oh,
I started, So your fiftieth is coming up later in
the this year, in August, and then you thought to.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yourself, I'm not gonna hang around here long.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, you never know. I always thought I wanted to
be a veterinarian. I needed a job. I was in
college and I became the zoo's very first veterinary technician.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So that's kind of a serious job at a zoo.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, it was fun. I was young. I didn't know
what I was walking into and as they say, the
rest is history. Fifty years later, I'm still working at
a zoo.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
We all love our pets. Kyle, are you as a
zoo people? Aren't you always at work? Don't you always
sort of feel it? Like you know, I always feel
like my dog's with me right now. He's not, but
he's home wondering, wonder what. I'm a bold guy. He'll
be back in a while, right.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Absolutely, And you're always thinking about him. And when you know,
when you have to say goodbye, that hurts just as
much as a family member sometimes.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Is that leading us to the next part of this conversation.
It's not permanent goodbye, but it is. Well, it's a
celebration too, Okay, tell me what's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So, as you know, and Steve is here because he's
got the fudest and probably the longest memories of Mickey
and Punch our two elephants, our African elephant Mickey and
our Asian elephant Punch, are leaving to go to a sanctuary,
the Elephant Sanctuary and holand Mall, Tennessee, and we're going
to be celebrating their life in early April and asking
(02:27):
the public to send us some solicitations for photos and memories.
And it's a celebration, you know, it's going to be,
of course, a little bittersweet, but it's also a celebration
of their massive time that they've spent with us and
how much they've taught us about elephants and all the
family memories that have been built at the zoo with
Mickey and Punch, and it's just a time to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That instead of going to an the old folks home escentually.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, it's a really nice place where they'll be able
to be on their own. They to relax, they don't
have to worry about guests walking around. There's other older
elephants there. They might be able to make new relationships
and it's totally up to them, but it's really nice.
(03:11):
It's about three thousand acres total cool and there's about
twelve thirteen other elephants.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I believe there right now, they get at a certain
age that they're not irked by other elephants and we
don't have to do all the territorial things that happening
with younger males.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, why we really like this place is they will
create management plans for each elephant based on their personalities
and what their needs are. So they let the elephant dictate.
If the elephant seems to want to go over to
see other elephants, they'll arrange for that. If the elephant
(03:46):
wants to be by itself and just be tearing down
trees eating grass, they'll let it do that too. So's
it's really a nice place for elephants to kind of
retire and about the.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
End of the life, you've got all these decades of
experience there tell me about elephants and the way they
feel about human beings as best you can. They're they're
they're just are they loving or they just curious.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Every elephant has a very unique personality. There's no rhyme
or reason necessarily to it. So elephants get to know
the people that take care of them, and they also
will pick up on particular attitudes from people, So some
people they will like more than others. Interesting, Uh, and
(04:41):
they will. They can certainly let you know if well, yeah,
you're not on their good side.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Kyle, you were talking about memories. People have memories, they've
taken photos with them. Did you, Steve help me? Do
you remember I shot a TV promo about the zoo
and I walked with Mickey and you were probably the
guy on the other side at that time.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh, I remember. I was actually supervisor in the elephant
area when Mickey arrived at the zoo. She was two
years old. She came out of a program in a
culling program in the southern part of Africa. So we
were really glad to get her. And so I was
there and worked with a great team of people and
(05:29):
we raised her up and you know, she's had two
calves here and.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Because she didn't know me for fifteen seconds and was
great and we walked along. I had to say certain
lines look at the camera, and she just walked with
me like yeah, okay, I'll go with us, Boso, I
mean whatever. I just thought, what an awesome am. I
just came up, was introduced and it's like, let's do
let's do this.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Most of the time, that's the way it is. But
occasionally I've seen our elephants. Somebody will walk into the
barn and now me just go, I don't know why.
I don't know how they thin slice it that fast,
but but they've done that.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So we've said that about dogs before, was like they
know and when it comes in your house and I
it's like they know something that's right. We don't know sure,
And the person that they're drolling, I goes, oh, he
knows about.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
This is such an interesting transition for the louisvill Zoo.
It's so massively successful, but Mickey and Punch are just
so well loved. It's going to be interesting for you guys.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It's hard for a lot of the staff, especially that
I've worked with him for a long time. Again, I've
known Punch since nineteen seventy five. She arrived at the
zoo in seventy three, so she was still relatively small
when I first started working with her. The interesting thing
I told you I was the first met tech at
the zoo. The very first animal I had to give
(07:01):
an injection to was Punch. So that's that's kind of
a neat connection, you know. So she and I go
way back, but we're I'm really glad about where they're going.
It's a great place they can relax, live out the
you know, the end of their life and uh, just
(07:24):
be elephants and not have to worry about anything else.
And the staff there are phenomenal people. They really care.
They have great expertise with older elephants, and I think
it's I'll feel good about where they're going.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Is this like the Baltimore Colts leaving for Indianapolis? You
do this in the middle of the night and nobody
knows and they transition. Yeah, some expressway right now. Right,
it's it's a little.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Hard to sneak an elephant out of town.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I'm just guessing the processes, Yeah, that we've already started, actually, right,
it's a.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Process we've been working on now for close to a
year and it takes a while.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
But to load them on the truck and or load
So we've.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Got a very special designed transport crate that's made specifically
for elephants, and we've brought that in and we've had
that and the elephants, the staff have been working with them,
helping them to grow accustomed to being in the transport
crate and they're getting quite comfortable in it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You can't come out well.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Sometimes they they're like no games because they get all
kinds of good stuff to be in there. Right, so
it's a good it's a good time and so and
it's only a four hour trip, so so they should
do well.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Sounds like a magical place in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I do want to add it's not an entire goodbye
because our public, our guests are families that watch the
two of them grow up and check in with the
Elephant Sanctuary. They have live cams. They put updates on
their website. We will have that stuff linked on our website.
You can check in with these live cams, the lacams
that they call them and learn about what they're doing.
And they update occasionally with you know, they've got a
bio on there, and of course they'll update you daily,
(09:16):
not daily, but every now and then. So it's not
an entire good Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So we're gonna have a celebration here we are.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We are so April fifth and sixth public celebration. We're
gonna have extra keeper talks and some fun enrichment for them.
We will probably do this little you know, those weddings
when you have those little thumb trees, make a piece
of art, you know, to send them off with and
and do some other fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And again we're so listening.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We want people to send us their photos because we
want to do some montages around the zoo on the website,
do some social videos with all that that imagery of them,
you know throughout the years with your family, you know,
your selfies with them, with them and all that good stuff.
So we'll solicit that on the website. You can go
to lovel zoo dot org and submit that. You can
mail it to us, but you won't get those back,
(09:59):
or you can drop them off at the zoo. And
you know, we're asking for some written stories. You can
on any of our Facebook posts or any of our
social posts. You could just make a comment about your
favorite memory. We'll collect those and that gives the public
a way to celebrate as well.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You bet we'll even have to find your video.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yes, no, we will under that.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Do you have to write? I don't know when it was.
I just was fast like to find it. I went
home and just said, I can't believe they had this
elephant just and they just told her just walk with
this idiot here and he's going to talk and then
look at the camera and then when he says whatever word,
then make your trunk flip right and whatever. Yes, we'll
do it. Do dive on Google. What's what's the next
(10:40):
phase for Louisville Zoo. Where are we growing? What's happening?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yes, so the very next thing would be what are
we going to do with the space where the elephants
are currently, And we're really thinking about doing some renovation
there and putting our rhinos up there. So I think
that'll be a fun place for the rhinos, one of
(11:05):
my favorite animals, and we'll give guests a lot of
good opportunities to be able to see the rhinos up close.
And then you know, we're working on designing a brand
new seventeen acre exhibit area that currently we've got titled
Kentucky Trails. We're close to the end of design on that,
(11:29):
and it's going to be about all kinds of animals
that currently live in our region or have lived here
in the past, and we're going to tell stories and
be able to create an experience like we've never seen
in the zoo before. It will be something new for
zoos in terms of how we're going to do this,
(11:50):
and I think our guests throughout the state are going
to love to come and learn about love to hear
animals that they live around.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Right now, I love it that you love rhinos too,
because they don't seem as friendly as elephants. It look like,
what are you doing? You hear from the rent.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I'm telling you, if I'm having a bad day at work,
I take a five minute walk and I can be
hanging out with a rhino. And how many people can
say that in this city. So it's awesome. They're they're great.
Come out sometime. We'll get some video.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Kyle took me in there with the gorillas one time
and Helen, I think it was and she she didn't
like she loved men, and that's what they told me.
She'd look at me, well look you know how they
look at certain way. They'd say, she likes men. Just
go Ellen.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Ellen and I had a great relationship, and I think
I'm okay to say this now. She liked coffee.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
She lived to be the second oldest gorilla on the planet,
and so she knew me because she liked to come
over and see me. Like you said, she likes men.
But I could bring coffee with her. Oh she loved
her coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Nice Steve, nice man.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And so at the end she was going downhill. This
next to the last time I went to see her.
We were in the back. It's an off exhibit area. Nice, relaxed, calm.
She came over to the mess I was letting her
drink her coffee, just having a good time, and suddenly
she got up and walked away, which is very unusual.
(13:30):
She never did that. She would hang there as long
as I wanted to stay. She went over to a
browse pile, picked through, and she found a little limb
off of a tree, you know, about this long with
some leaves, and brought it over and pushed it through
the mesh to give it to me. Oh, and I'm like,
(13:50):
how many people have a sixty four year old gorilla
that wants to.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Share their food with Oh, my gosh, I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And it wasn't long after that that she passed away.
So that was that was a very special, uh thing.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
She was a girl, Yes, she was all girl. That's right.
Louisville Zoo dot Org. Let's go celebrate the elephants. Good
to see Steven Kyle, Thanks a bunch on news radio
A forty w h A s
I got buddies in from the Louisville Zoo. Kyle Shepherd,
longtime friend and queen of the Louisville Zoo. It's good
to see you friends as always.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Much think you good to see you as always.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Steve Taylor's here as well. He just started working at
the Louisville Zoo. Let's see, Oh, it was a half
century ago. I feel about that, bro, I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Isn't a great tell everybody. After forty nine years, I
think I've decided to make it a career.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You really should tell me about what kind of a
guy you were when you walked in the zoo there
in the nineteen seventies. Were you wearing some bell bottoms?
Were you saying groovy.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Man, groovy far out?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, buddy, because John Denver would use those phrases, and
people go, abs, let's be what we're supposed to say.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Absolutely, that was the time. I love the seventies. So
you walk into the zoo in nineteen what seventy seventy five? Oh,
I started, So your fiftieth is coming up later in
the this year, in August, and then you thought to.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yourself, I'm not gonna hang around here long.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, you never know. I always thought I wanted to
be a veterinarian. I needed a job. I was in
college and I became the zoo's very first veterinary technician.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So that's kind of a serious job at a zoo.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, it was fun. I was young. I didn't know
what I was walking into and as they say, the
rest is history. Fifty years later, I'm still working at
a zoo.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
We all love our pets. Kyle, are you as a
zoo people? Aren't you always at work? Don't you always
sort of feel it? Like you know, I always feel
like my dog's with me right now. He's not, but
he's home wondering, wonder what. I'm a bold guy. He'll
be back in a while, right.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Absolutely, And you're always thinking about him. And when you know,
when you have to say goodbye, that hurts just as
much as a family member sometimes.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Is that leading us to the next part of this conversation.
It's not permanent goodbye, but it is. Well, it's a
celebration too, Okay, tell me what's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So, as you know, and Steve is here because he's
got the fudest and probably the longest memories of Mickey
and Punch our two elephants, our African elephant Mickey and
our Asian elephant Punch, are leaving to go to a sanctuary,
the Elephant Sanctuary and holand Mall, Tennessee, and we're going
to be celebrating their life in early April and asking
(02:27):
the public to send us some solicitations for photos and memories.
And it's a celebration, you know, it's going to be,
of course, a little bittersweet, but it's also a celebration
of their massive time that they've spent with us and
how much they've taught us about elephants and all the
family memories that have been built at the zoo with
Mickey and Punch, and it's just a time to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That instead of going to an the old folks home escentually.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, it's a really nice place where they'll be able
to be on their own. They to relax, they don't
have to worry about guests walking around. There's other older
elephants there. They might be able to make new relationships
and it's totally up to them, but it's really nice.
(03:11):
It's about three thousand acres total cool and there's about
twelve thirteen other elephants.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I believe there right now, they get at a certain
age that they're not irked by other elephants and we
don't have to do all the territorial things that happening
with younger males.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, why we really like this place is they will
create management plans for each elephant based on their personalities
and what their needs are. So they let the elephant dictate.
If the elephant seems to want to go over to
see other elephants, they'll arrange for that. If the elephant
(03:46):
wants to be by itself and just be tearing down
trees eating grass, they'll let it do that too. So's
it's really a nice place for elephants to kind of
retire and about the.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
End of the life, you've got all these decades of
experience there tell me about elephants and the way they
feel about human beings as best you can. They're they're
they're just are they loving or they just curious.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Every elephant has a very unique personality. There's no rhyme
or reason necessarily to it. So elephants get to know
the people that take care of them, and they also
will pick up on particular attitudes from people, So some
people they will like more than others. Interesting, Uh, and
(04:41):
they will. They can certainly let you know if well, yeah,
you're not on their good side.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Kyle, you were talking about memories. People have memories, they've
taken photos with them. Did you, Steve help me? Do
you remember I shot a TV promo about the zoo
and I walked with Mickey and you were probably the
guy on the other side at that time.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh, I remember. I was actually supervisor in the elephant
area when Mickey arrived at the zoo. She was two
years old. She came out of a program in a
culling program in the southern part of Africa. So we
were really glad to get her. And so I was
there and worked with a great team of people and
(05:29):
we raised her up and you know, she's had two
calves here and.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Because she didn't know me for fifteen seconds and was
great and we walked along. I had to say certain
lines look at the camera, and she just walked with
me like yeah, okay, I'll go with us, Boso, I
mean whatever. I just thought, what an awesome am. I
just came up, was introduced and it's like, let's do
let's do this.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Most of the time, that's the way it is. But
occasionally I've seen our elephants. Somebody will walk into the
barn and now me just go, I don't know why.
I don't know how they thin slice it that fast,
but but they've done that.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So we've said that about dogs before, was like they
know and when it comes in your house and I
it's like they know something that's right. We don't know sure,
And the person that they're drolling, I goes, oh, he
knows about.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
This is such an interesting transition for the louisvill Zoo.
It's so massively successful, but Mickey and Punch are just
so well loved. It's going to be interesting for you guys.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It's hard for a lot of the staff, especially that
I've worked with him for a long time. Again, I've
known Punch since nineteen seventy five. She arrived at the
zoo in seventy three, so she was still relatively small
when I first started working with her. The interesting thing
I told you I was the first met tech at
the zoo. The very first animal I had to give
(07:01):
an injection to was Punch. So that's that's kind of
a neat connection, you know. So she and I go
way back, but we're I'm really glad about where they're going.
It's a great place they can relax, live out the
you know, the end of their life and uh, just
(07:24):
be elephants and not have to worry about anything else.
And the staff there are phenomenal people. They really care.
They have great expertise with older elephants, and I think
it's I'll feel good about where they're going.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Is this like the Baltimore Colts leaving for Indianapolis? You
do this in the middle of the night and nobody
knows and they transition. Yeah, some expressway right now. Right,
it's it's a little.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Hard to sneak an elephant out of town.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I'm just guessing the processes, Yeah, that we've already started, actually, right,
it's a.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Process we've been working on now for close to a
year and it takes a while.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
But to load them on the truck and or load
So we've.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Got a very special designed transport crate that's made specifically
for elephants, and we've brought that in and we've had
that and the elephants, the staff have been working with them,
helping them to grow accustomed to being in the transport
crate and they're getting quite comfortable in it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You can't come out well.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Sometimes they they're like no games because they get all
kinds of good stuff to be in there. Right, so
it's a good it's a good time and so and
it's only a four hour trip, so so they should
do well.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Sounds like a magical place in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I do want to add it's not an entire goodbye
because our public, our guests are families that watch the
two of them grow up and check in with the
Elephant Sanctuary. They have live cams. They put updates on
their website. We will have that stuff linked on our website.
You can check in with these live cams, the lacams
that they call them and learn about what they're doing.
And they update occasionally with you know, they've got a
bio on there, and of course they'll update you daily,
(09:16):
not daily, but every now and then. So it's not
an entire good Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So we're gonna have a celebration here we are.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We are so April fifth and sixth public celebration. We're
gonna have extra keeper talks and some fun enrichment for them.
We will probably do this little you know, those weddings
when you have those little thumb trees, make a piece
of art, you know, to send them off with and
and do some other fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And again we're so listening.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We want people to send us their photos because we
want to do some montages around the zoo on the website,
do some social videos with all that that imagery of them,
you know throughout the years with your family, you know,
your selfies with them, with them and all that good stuff.
So we'll solicit that on the website. You can go
to lovel zoo dot org and submit that. You can
mail it to us, but you won't get those back,
(09:59):
or you can drop them off at the zoo. And
you know, we're asking for some written stories. You can
on any of our Facebook posts or any of our
social posts. You could just make a comment about your
favorite memory. We'll collect those and that gives the public
a way to celebrate as well.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You bet we'll even have to find your video.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yes, no, we will under that.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Do you have to write? I don't know when it was.
I just was fast like to find it. I went
home and just said, I can't believe they had this
elephant just and they just told her just walk with
this idiot here and he's going to talk and then
look at the camera and then when he says whatever word,
then make your trunk flip right and whatever. Yes, we'll
do it. Do dive on Google. What's what's the next
(10:40):
phase for Louisville Zoo. Where are we growing? What's happening?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yes, so the very next thing would be what are
we going to do with the space where the elephants
are currently, And we're really thinking about doing some renovation
there and putting our rhinos up there. So I think
that'll be a fun place for the rhinos, one of
(11:05):
my favorite animals, and we'll give guests a lot of
good opportunities to be able to see the rhinos up close.
And then you know, we're working on designing a brand
new seventeen acre exhibit area that currently we've got titled
Kentucky Trails. We're close to the end of design on that,
(11:29):
and it's going to be about all kinds of animals
that currently live in our region or have lived here
in the past, and we're going to tell stories and
be able to create an experience like we've never seen
in the zoo before. It will be something new for
zoos in terms of how we're going to do this,
(11:50):
and I think our guests throughout the state are going
to love to come and learn about love to hear
animals that they live around.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Right now, I love it that you love rhinos too,
because they don't seem as friendly as elephants. It look like,
what are you doing? You hear from the rent.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I'm telling you, if I'm having a bad day at work,
I take a five minute walk and I can be
hanging out with a rhino. And how many people can
say that in this city. So it's awesome. They're they're great.
Come out sometime. We'll get some video.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Kyle took me in there with the gorillas one time
and Helen, I think it was and she she didn't
like she loved men, and that's what they told me.
She'd look at me, well look you know how they
look at certain way. They'd say, she likes men. Just
go Ellen.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Ellen and I had a great relationship, and I think
I'm okay to say this now. She liked coffee.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
She lived to be the second oldest gorilla on the planet,
and so she knew me because she liked to come
over and see me. Like you said, she likes men.
But I could bring coffee with her. Oh she loved
her coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Nice Steve, nice man.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And so at the end she was going downhill. This
next to the last time I went to see her.
We were in the back. It's an off exhibit area. Nice, relaxed, calm.
She came over to the mess I was letting her
drink her coffee, just having a good time, and suddenly
she got up and walked away, which is very unusual.
(13:30):
She never did that. She would hang there as long
as I wanted to stay. She went over to a
browse pile, picked through, and she found a little limb
off of a tree, you know, about this long with
some leaves, and brought it over and pushed it through
the mesh to give it to me. Oh, and I'm like,
(13:50):
how many people have a sixty four year old gorilla
that wants to.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Share their food with Oh, my gosh, I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And it wasn't long after that that she passed away.
So that was that was a very special, uh thing.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
She was a girl, Yes, she was all girl. That's right.
Louisville Zoo dot Org. Let's go celebrate the elephants. Good
to see Steven Kyle, Thanks a bunch on news radio
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