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Wichita Zoo Drops a Huge Pregnancy Announcement About Their Female Elephants

Published Apr 18, 2024 03:15PM

Wichita Zoo Drops a Huge Pregnancy Announcement About Their Female Elephants

There's just something about baby elephants that always makes me a bit weepy. Blame it on Dumbo, blame it on how lovingly elephant moms care for their offspring, blame it on how other female elephants care for a baby in the heard, but I will always find elephants such special creatures. If you are anything like me, you better grab those tissues because the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas has some pretty beautiful news.

Five of their six female elephants are pregnant.

The zoo shared the news on Facebook and poste ... Read more

Kansas offers $200 million in bonds to lure theme park in Bo

TOPEKA — The budget bill forwarded to Gov. Laura Kelly by the Kansas Legislature includes about $200 million in economic development incentives that could be used to attract a Mattel amusement park in Bonner Springs and a yet-to-be-disclosed “car ... Read more

Burgers and custard, anyone? Kansas-founded fast-food chain

A midwestern fast food chain is building a second Fayetteville location.

Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers will open this fall at 2860 Hope Mills Road, according to a Thursday news release from the company.

Constructi ... Read more

A Series of Lessons on Wichita, KS, WWII Heritage City (U.S.

B-29 Superfortresses at Boeing Plant in Wichita in 1945; “Wartime production display of B-29 Superfortresses at Boeing plant in Wichita. View looking west toward main administration building, 3801 South Oliver Street.” Courtesy of Wichita State U ... Read more

Kansas Zoo Announces 5 of Its 6 Female Elephants Are Pregnant and Expecting Calves in 2025

Published Apr 17, 2024 08:16PM

The zoo noted that the pregnant elephants "will each be experiencing motherhood for the first time"

Sedgwick County Zoo An elephant at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas

A Kansas zoo is preparing for a massive increase in its elephant population.

The Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kan., revealed in a Facebook post on April 17 that another one of its six female elephants is pregnant, bringing the zoo's total of expectant elephant mothers to five, with the first birth expected in 2025.

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Zillow Gone Wild is fixated on this ‘old world’ castle i

An estate with a classic, European-style look has popped up on the real estate market in Wichita, Kansas, for $3.5 million.

Exterior Screen grab from Zillow

It’s named The Campbell Castle. And while it’s 134 years old, i ... Read more

Exclusive-Spirit AeroSystems limits overtime and hiring as B

FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc, is seen in Wichita

FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc, is seen in Wichita

By Allison Lampert

(Reuters) -Boeing's key ... Read more

This Kansas teacher got hurt breaking up a fight. He says sc

WICHITA, Kansas — Just a few days after this school year started, Dave Clark, then athletic director at Wichita West High School, was standing in a hallway when a fight broke out.

A school security officer had restrained a student, but ... Read more

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