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Saint Louis Zoo, Missouri Department of Conservation Announce World's First Captive Breeding of Ozark Hellbenders-Salamander Numbers Drastically Down
Decade-Long Collaboration of Zoo and Federal, State Scientists Yields 63 Baby Hellbenders ST. LOUIS, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Saint Louis Zoo's Ron Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation and the Missouri Department of Conservation today announced that Ozark hellbenders have been bred in captivity—a first for either of the two subspecies of hellbender.  This decade-long collaboration has yielded 63 baby hellbenders. The first hellbender hatched on Nov.

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