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The Zoo’s director received a strange request in a telegram she received in 1938. San Diego Zoo Visitor Assistance Officer Octavio Naranjo tells the story of the Zoo’s flea trade that summer.

“I Need Fleas!” is the twelfth and final selection of our 90th Birthday Podcasts series. Download all the 90th Birthday videos here.

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Diablo was a 23-foot-long, 200-pound python at the Zoo in the 1920s. Children’s Zoo keeper Richard Schwartz tells the incredible story of how this snake became famous at feeding time.

“Feeding Diablo” is the eleventh selection of our 90th Birthday Podcasts series. Download all the 90th Birthday videos here.

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Zoo switchboard operator Myrna Womack tells the story of how the Zoo’s first elephants got here from India.

“Feeding Diablo” is the tenth selection of our 90th Birthday Podcasts series. Download all the 90th Birthday videos here.

Learn all about the majestic California condors and all of the other North American wildlife found at the Wild Animal Park’s Condor Ridge habitat.

1. Condor Ridge Introduction (1:36)

2. Thick-billed parrot and Western greater roadrunner (1:26)

3. Bald eagle (0:56)

4. Canadian porcupine and Black-tailed prairie dogs (1:32)

5.Black-footed ferret (1:13)

6. Harris’ hawk (1:05)

7. Western burrowing owl, Desert tortoise, and American magpie (1:49)

8. Desert bighorn sheep (1:32)

9. California condors (2:04)

Click here to see the Condor Ridge Exhibit page.