Saint Louis Zoo
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Oct 8, 2026
Ash KelleyHOST
Edwin had worked alongside his brothers early at the brewery, but like Charles, he had left the family business in 1913 and rarely interacted with his siblings.
Ash KelleyHOST
A lover of animals, Edwin donated heavily to the St. Louis Zoo and the Missouri, uh, History Museum, and he died of natural causes in 1970, effectively ending the family legacy.
Alaina UrquhartHOST
Interesting.
Ash KelleyHOST
So they are, they all...
Jayvn SolomonGUEST
So like for context, they designed the St. Louis Aquarium.
Jayvn SolomonGUEST
St. Louis Zoo, actually a lot of stuff here.
Jayvn SolomonGUEST
But...
Jayvn SolomonGUEST
while I was there, actually, I'm thinking like, okay, if we can do all of these crazy things, why can't we just get some really tight artists here to just paint a building? And while we're at it, maybe put a tree, a shrub up there to incrementally, maybe even microscopically, but even still like chip away at the heat index in St.
JessHOST
Oh, wow.
JessHOST
And he arrived from the St. Louis Zoo in late June and has been acclimating to his new home and family.
JessHOST
Oh, and it was actually closed because of that for a little while.
ChelseaHOST
That honestly
Eddie GarciaPANELIST
Crazy.
Eddie GarciaPANELIST
Well, I would've gone polar bear, but, uh, at the St. Louis Zoo.
Eddie GarciaPANELIST
But I'll go bald eagle.
Eddie GarciaPANELIST
I was in Alaska, and I watched an eagle come out of the trees, swoop down, grab a fish, and go back up.
William FilipekGUEST
And again, I will caveat by saying this isn't to say your ball Python can't be big.
William FilipekGUEST
because boy when i went behind the scenes at the saint louis zoo i saw some giants they had this was like 15 years ago they had these old four-foot neodesha cages with like this big black hide and one side and sitting out sitting its head outside was this ball python i you not its head was the girth width wise of like a juvenile burmese python or sub-adult burmese python this thing was huge i mean you're talking about the 40 45 year old ball python now you're talking really really old so yeah i don't want like i don't know to me though like i'm not i'm less concerned about like sizes and snakes more than this like if i'm going to breed it can the snake you know have a safe reproductive cycle you know even snakes that you don't think might still can i've had snakes that you go there's no way the snake can lay a clutch of eggs and May not be a huge clutch, but ends up laying a decent clutch that you didn't think it would be able to lay.
William FilipekGUEST
You know, I don't know.
Steven KushHOST
Yeah, no, no doubt about it.
Matt ParishHOST
I love polar bears.
Matt ParishHOST
And one of the reasons I love him is because there's one at the St. Louis Zoo, which I've already mentioned before.
Matt ParishHOST
But I love that bear so much.
Matt ParishHOST
He sits in like 34 degree water all day long and doesn't move.
Matt ParishHOST
But then recently I saw him moving around and it was just the most impressive thing.
Matt ParishHOST
They found that bear.
Matt ParishHOST
He had been orphaned as a child in Alaska and brought him to the St. Louis Zoo where he was raised.
Matt ParishHOST
They've not been able to reintegrate him into society.
Joel WallachSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And after two years of working with elephants and rhino, people used to ask me, "Are, are you a small animal vet or a large animal vet?" Well, I would tell them I'm a extra-large animal vet 'cause I work with elephants and rhinos.
Joel WallachSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, after two years, he sent me a telegram and said, "Would you come back to the St. Louis Zoo and work with us? Uh, we need a wildlife veterinarian at the zoo for a special project.
Joel WallachSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We were given a seven and a half million dollar grant from the, um, National Institutes of Health, and what we need is a veterinarian who will do autopsies of animals that die of natural causes in the zoo." Well, I was just overjoyed to do that, and so I came back and, and did that.
Joel WallachSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And of course, I not only did autopsies for animals that died in the St. Louis Zoo, but the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, the Bronx Zoo in New York, the National Zoo, the LA Zoo, and so forth.
Joel WallachSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And my job, again, was to do autopsies of animals that died of natural causes in the zoo and look for a species of animals that was ultra-sensitive to pollution.
Joel WallachSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is because during the early '60s, we had just learned about pollution, and ecological problems, and disasters, and nobody quite knew what to do.
Joel WallachSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And my job was to do autopsies of animals that died of natural causes in the big zoos around the United States.
Joel WallachSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This, of course, included the St. Louis Zoo with Perkins directly, the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, the Bronx Zoo in New York, the National Zoo in D.C., the L.A.
Joel WallachSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Zoo, and many, many other big zoos throughout the United States.
Joel WallachSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And my job was to do autopsies on animals that died of natural causes and to look for a species of animals that was ultra-sensitive to pollution.
Bill McClellanPANELIST
I agree.
Bill McClellanPANELIST
St. Louis Zoo.
Wendy WiesePANELIST
I'm all right with
Bill McClellanPANELIST
it.
Spencer HenryHOST
And like his sister Elsa, he was extremely generous.
Spencer HenryHOST
He was a huge animal lover and is part of the reason behind the success of the St. Louis Zoo.
Spencer HenryHOST
He donated a lot of money, did a lot of philanthropic work for animals.
Spencer HenryHOST
And Edwin... is the only one out of them who lived a long life he passed away from natural causes when he was 90 years old and reportedly at his deathbed he told his caretaker to destroy his collection of art that he had built throughout his life and he said i want anything all of the family heirlooms all of it destroyed
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