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Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1975
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by Andy Sidden
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Roraar has a hearty appetite. He eats a dozen apples, a dozen
oranges, a quart of green beans, eight slices of bread, eight ounces of
stewed beef and half a pineapple each day.
Romar, a 235-pound gorilla, is one of more than 1 00 animals fed
and cared for at the North Carolina Zoological Park under
construction near Asheboro.
Along with his food, Romar is supposed to have a quart of milk
daily.
"It's sometimes hard to get that much in him," zookeeper John
Freeze, a 74 UNC graduate, said. He usually gets about a pint along
with some orange juice."
Freeze said most of the animals are vegetarians and their food can
usually be bought in local grocery stores.
"It's sometimes hard to get pineapples, though, in a small town like
Asheboro," he said.
Feeding the carnivorous animals presents more of a problem.
Many of them eat horsemeat, while the zoo's seven boa constrictprs
lunch on dead mice. Few grocery stores in Asheboro or elsewhere
stock these items.
"The snakes are probably my favorites of all the animals," Freeze
said. Tve got a pet boa of my own at home. I feed him dead hamsters
instead of mice."
It cost $20,000 to feed the animals this year. Zoo Operations
Manager A.H. Lueker estimates it will cost $35,000 next year. The
state pays the cost of operation; the North Carolina Zoological
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Dippy, a white-handed gibbon (a small Asian ape), works to cut
food costs by gathering some of his own food. He searches for little
delicacies such as dandruff and lint from the zoo keepers' hair.
Sometimes he gets a little rough-
"Dippy grabbed my hair through the peep-hole behind his cage the
other day and banged my head against the wall," said zookeeper
John Byrd, a former chemistry teacher. It was all I could do to get
away."
Byrd has been trampled by an antelope, charged by a pregnant
bison and bitten by a wide assortment of animals at the zoo.
"It's times like those when I wish I was back teaching school," he
said. I really love all the animals, though."
Only seven keepers work at the zoo now, but by the time it's
completed it will employ several hundred.
The park, the first state-supported zoo in the country, has the
potential to become the largest walk-through zoological park in the
world. Its master plan calls for 1,37 1 acres divided into sections:
South and North America, South and East Africa, Australia,
Europe, Asia, "World of Seas" and North Carolina.
The zoo will be built in phases, Freeze said. Phase One, the African
sections, should be finished in two or three years. The zoological
society hopes to raise $ 1 3.4 million for this phase. It will take 20 to 25
years to complete the zoo.
Romar, the gorilla, will live in the African section and will require
one of the many special structures planned to protect animals that
can't thrive in North Carolina's climate. Temperature, humidity and
light in these buildings will be the same as in the animals' natural
habitats. Zoo visitors will be able to go from sub-freezing arctic areas
to scorching deserts.
Zoo Director Bill Huff said last summer that entering the
structures would be similar to entering different climate zones with
different vegetation.
Animals not needing climate control will stay in open areas
representing their own natural habitats, separated from other habitat
areas by moats, ridge lines or patches of forest.
Romar and Dippy, the gibbon, now live in the large animal display
building at the interim zoo along with" about 30 other animals.
Animals not housed in this building live outdoors in oblong cages,
called runs, or in fenced in pastures.
The zoo is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and
admission is. free.
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