Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium

it gave fans and staff a chance to prepare for this loss and to share messages and photos and all kinds of cool stuff before she passed, which I think probably brought a lot of comfort to the people who loved her most.

Our friends at the Kansas City Zoo and Aquarium are grieving the loss of Koa, an 11-month-old white-cheeked gibbon.

Koa, who was still being taken care of by his parents, who had been doing a great job, by the way, was a very curious little guy.

He loved exploring.

I always love seeing them running around chasing each other.

Uh, actually shout out to Kansas City Zoo who just had their red pandas breed.

Uh, they were three born but only two survived, but they're still, uh, getting acclimated with their parents and they have...

What I read was like they have a camera thing like at the exhibit so you could see the, the kids bonding with the mother or the parents, I should say, uh, separately.

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There was, there was one I really wanted to pick, and it was because of something I found out recently, and those are peacocks.

So, uh, the Kansas City Zoo-

I also wanted to pick peacocks.

That's going to be what we're all doing next weekend on Sunday.

And then Saturday, a lot of us will also be at the Zoo Run, the Kansas City Zoo Run, the four miler.

Many of us will be there.

That's a fun race.

And this is a big sprawling city park complex that has the big outdoor starlight theater that we love to go see touring shows at.

But then they also have the Kansas City Zoo and Aquarium, one of the best zoos in the country.

Hands down, Kansas City Zoo, just in my lifetime, has grown by leaps and bounds.

And they have really done such a good job of sort of creating a very immersive sort of landscaped environment when you come in there.

It's massive.

Welcome back to New Day with SSJ on Sports Radio 810 WHB.

Thank you so much for joining us, and right now we're gonna say hello to, uh, our good friends, Terry and Lisa Drake, to talk about the upcoming Kansas City Zoo Run, which takes place Saturday, September 19th.

It's the Run for the Hornbills.

How about that? And it's always a great event.

Great.

Now I'm going to watch a live stream of the penguins at the Kansas City Zoo.

You do that in class?

Yeah.

They've been to the zoo in Kansas City before, right? They've been to

the Kansas City Zoo a bunch of times, yeah.

Which I found out that you get, there's some kind of deal where if you're members of the Kansas City Zoo, you get in for 50% off.

And you guys

are members, right? We are members of the Kansas City.

It's very cool.

On Kansas City.

No offense to Kansas City Zoo.

So I can remember I was probably probably about eight or something like that.

And we had gone to the Kansas City Zoo and they had just reopened.

Well, they didn't redo it.

They just opened a large expansion of Africa, a large African savanna and African rainforest and everything.