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Home on the range - in this case Rattle-snake Conservation area in Halton county - these buffalo appear to be thriving far from their native rangeland(...)
Home on the range - in this case Rattle-snake Conservation area in Halton county - these buffalo appear to be thriving far from their native rangeland(...)

Home on the range - in this case Rattle-snake Conservation area in Halton county - these buffalo appear to be thriving far from their native rangeland(...)

Date6/12/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: Home on the range - in this case Rattle-snake Conservation area in Halton county - these buffalo appear to be thriving far from their native rangelands in Alberta. However; Bashful Bobby; bull of herd; failed to live up to his name and chased our photographer; forcing him to take shelter in a bog. Plans to further development of conservation areas in the Credit Valley area were revealed yesterday at Terra Cotta by George Kerr; minister of resources.
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It's the first taste of snow for the cheetahs, and they don't like it as they huddle on the only area clear of the stuff in their compound. The African natives arrived at Metro Zoo last June
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Goodness snakes! Bev Carter of the Metro Zoo shows off a legless lizard to a young show-goer
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Mangrove snake
Mangrove snake
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A person on a bicycle rides through a heavily wooded area.
Deer and buffalo corral, High Park, Toronto, Canada
1909
This lion family at Wasaga Beach appears to be content despite spending the winter months outdoors, though one of the cubs seems to be offering some o(...)
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Zoo goes too fur. So far in 1980, Metro Toronto Zoo has become the haven of nine orphaned bear cubs, seven blacks and two polars. Dr. Bill Rapley, the(...)
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2/20/1980
It was hard to tell who was more interested in whom as cross-county skiers Elizabeth Rhind (left) and Diane Hudson passed
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Home bird: Gronk the bald eagle, who flew the coop and spent two days of freedom in the Rouge Valley is back home at Metro Zoo, with keeper Maria Franks, who helped recapture her
Home bird: Gronk the bald eagle, who flew the coop and spent two days of freedom in the Rouge Valley is back home at Metro Zoo, with keeper Maria Franks, who helped recapture her
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