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Encounters of the wild kind
Traveling zoo brings menagerie to GSU for WinterFest activities
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Animals featured in Staples Safari Zoo pose for photographers at the Georgia Southern Center for Wildlife Education. The outfit from Washington State will have two shows Saturday.
With a police escort, two 45-foot trailers turned the corner on Forest Drive onto the campus of Georgia Southern and pulled into the Center for Wildlife Education. As the truck came to a stop the sounds of monkeys, birds and other animals could be heard through the walls of the trailer. Brian Staples, the director of Staples Safari in Washington, emerged from the lead truck as his co-workers began unloading the “cargo.”
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