Nigel, a 9-year-old giraffe, will leave the zoo at the end of this month, Scott Mitchell, Erie Zoological Society president and CEO, said on Thursday.
Nigel is leaving Erie for a zoo in the Midwest, Mitchell said. As part of the Erie Zoo’s $10 million capital campaign, Wild Open Spaces, it plans to make a larger and more interactive giraffe exhibit with a herd of giraffes, he explained.
See many of our file photos of the Erie Zoo, through the years. Photos by ERIE TIMES-NEWS staff.
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See newspaper clippings and photos of animals and happenings at the Erie Zoo, formerly the Glenwood Zoo, from the 1960s.
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"Of all the Erie Zoo staff, 80% are female," said Scott Mitchell, president and CEO of the Erie Zoological Society.
See file photos of some of the women who have worked for years at the Erie Zoo, and who have been an important part of its success. Photos by the ERIE TIMES-NEWS
Joe Kalvelage, 77, of Erie, knows “everybody” at the zoo, from employees to animals.
Ollie, the Erie Zoo’s 9-year-old Bornean orangutan, will be moved to the San Francisco Zoo in spring or summer 2019 as part of a breeding program. He was born in 2009 at the Erie Zoo to Dasa and Joe, both of whom will remain at the Erie Zoo along with Otis, born in 2017.
