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Bring in Dr. Seuss! Metro Zoo officials are corralling every idea they can come up with to boost zoo attendance.
Bring in Dr. Seuss! Metro Zoo officials are corralling every idea they can come up with to boost zoo attendance.

Bring in Dr. Seuss! Metro Zoo officials are corralling every idea they can come up with to boost zoo attendance.

Date2/14/1978
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0061716F
Mother and . . . Caroline, 11-year-old gorilla at Metro Zoo with her first baby which was born May 18 but whose sex zoo officials can't tell to this d(...)
Mother and . . . Caroline, 11-year-old gorilla at Metro Zoo with her first baby which was born May 18 but whose sex zoo officials can't tell to this d(...)
6/10/1983
Brazilian bugs: Metro Zoo officials are keeping male and female giant Brazilian cockroaches seperated so they don't multiply and possibly scare zoo visitors
Brazilian bugs: Metro Zoo officials are keeping male and female giant Brazilian cockroaches seperated so they don't multiply and possibly scare zoo visitors
5/20/1982
Metro Zoo's Winter Surprise party in February - including Professor Futz and His Band of Nuts, above - drew 7,000 people in one day. Attendance in Feb(...)
Metro Zoo's Winter Surprise party in February - including Professor Futz and His Band of Nuts, above - drew 7,000 people in one day. Attendance in Feb(...)
4/10/1978
Pollution solution: Retired biochemist Dr. Dmytro Buchnea says solution to gull problem on Leslie St. Spit is to harvest eggs for eating. But Canadian Wildlife Service officials have tabled his idea.
Pollution solution: Retired biochemist Dr. Dmytro Buchnea says solution to gull problem on Leslie St. Spit is to harvest eggs for eating. But Canadian Wildlife Service officials have tabled his idea.
4/15/1984
Hairy suitor: Aussie, the hairy-nosed wombat, is on loan to Metro Toronto Zoo from Chicago's Brookfield Zoo - in hopes he'll find a mate. Come next June, he may be leading Sunday tours with the zoo's director-to-be, Peter Crowcroft, also from Australia.
Hairy suitor: Aussie, the hairy-nosed wombat, is on loan to Metro Toronto Zoo from Chicago's Brookfield Zoo - in hopes he'll find a mate. Come next June, he may be leading Sunday tours with the zoo's director-to-be, Peter Crowcroft, also from Australia.
8/4/1980
Delicate conference next week of federal, provincial municipal officials will bring together Metro Chairman Albert Campbell (left) and Urban Affairs M(...)
Delicate conference next week of federal, provincial municipal officials will bring together Metro Chairman Albert Campbell (left) and Urban Affairs M(...)
4/28/1971
Gunter Voss has some remarkable ideas for Metro's new zoo, which he will direct
Gunter Voss has some remarkable ideas for Metro's new zoo, which he will direct
11/3/1970
More than Mr. Pooh Can Bear. Mr. Pooh, the 5-year-old polar bear at the Riverdale Zoo was reluctant to leave for his new home in the Metro Zoo yesterd(...)
More than Mr. Pooh Can Bear. Mr. Pooh, the 5-year-old polar bear at the Riverdale Zoo was reluctant to leave for his new home in the Metro Zoo yesterd(...)
10/17/1974
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(...)
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(...)
2/20/1980
Uneasy moment for Mr. Ospher, the 13-pound Osphronemus goramy, comes as owner Bill Roman and two workers from the Metro Zoo transfer him from his aqua(...)
Uneasy moment for Mr. Ospher, the 13-pound Osphronemus goramy, comes as owner Bill Roman and two workers from the Metro Zoo transfer him from his aqua(...)
2/26/1975
The hiring of Philip Ogilvie, above, to manage the new Metro Zoo comes under fire from readers
The hiring of Philip Ogilvie, above, to manage the new Metro Zoo comes under fire from readers
7/17/1975
Come here, kid. The latest arrival at the Metro Toronto Zoo looks as if she's sporting a pair of striped pyjamas, but otherwise she doesn't look much (...)
Come here, kid. The latest arrival at the Metro Toronto Zoo looks as if she's sporting a pair of striped pyjamas, but otherwise she doesn't look much (...)
6/24/1981