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WAI offers home
for exotic animals
By TERESA ROACH
Imagine spending Saturday after
noon in Africa. . . well, almost Af
rica.
Take a walk through Wild Ani
mals International, eat lunch at the
new restaurant and visit the
monkeys on Chimp Island.
Wild Animals International,
(WAI) an exotic 68-acre animal
compound along FM 2818 will
open for the second time Saturday,
April 1.
“Our special attraction for open
ing day will be our Large South
American parrots, each costing
$135, and approximately 1,000
other exotic animals and birds,” said
Richard LaBlue, owner and man
ager of WAI.
Some of the animals include De-
metroie, the 5-month-old jaguar cub
and Freddy, the 15-foot giraffe.
Demetroie was taken away from his
parents and bottle fed when he was
one week old, LaBlue said. Now he
freely runs around the compound,
teasing the other animals and seek
ing attention. His parents also live
at WAI, but they are wild and are
used for breeding.
There are also many endangered
animals that are being bred at the
$750,000 compound. These include
monkeys like the stump-tail
macaque, the gibbon and the chim
panzee.
“I spend about 60 percent of my
time on the road buying and selling
these animals for the compound,”
Texas school
group "hears’
foreign students
United Press International
BEEVILLE, Texas — Iranian
students earlier this month accused
of disrupting classes at Bee County
Junior College in Beeville began in
dividual hearings by a school com
mittee Tuesday.
Over 90 students were arrested for
disorderly conduct after they were
allegedly asked to stop a demonstra
tion against the Shah of Iran on
March 9.
College President Grady Hogue
said Monday if the committee finds
individuals did interrupt classes by
refusing to leave, the committee
could recommend school officials
take action such as dismissals.
At a Dallas news conference
Monday, a spokesman for a group
formed to defend the Beeville stu
dents, Bijan Khezri, protested the
college’s move to hold the hearings.
Khezri said the college was acting as
judge and jury by taking the students
before the student-faculty discipline
committee before they have been
convicted of violating the law.
LaBlue said. “It’s a very demanding
business, but I really enjoy it. I have
dealers all over the country. I go to
places such as South Africa, In
donesia, and Singapore.
He said that 90 percent of his
birds come from foreign countries
and that most of his hoof-stock ani
mals, such as zebras and antelope
come from other countries.
“We have trained and bottle fed
animals for movies and commercials
in the past,” LaBlue said. “Pat-
tycake, a female Bengal tiger, and a
eerval cat from the petting zoo were
in the science-fiction movie ‘The Is
land of Doctor Moreau.’ Just re
cently, one of our young tigers was
used in a Lamar Carpeting commer
cial, but usually we try to stay away
from commercials.
“We are now planning a 30-to
60-minute educational program
geared toward showing children
conservation in zoos. The program
will have jaguars that were bom at
WAI, some of our endangered ani
mals, and chimps.”
A pet store is also planned for the
future. Some birds such as coc
katoos and parrots will be offered for
sale.
The College of Veterinary
Medicine often uses the exotic ani
mal compound for research, LaBlue
said.
Dr. C.D. Brown teaches an exotic
animal course at the College of Vet
erinary Medicine and takes his stu
dents to the compound on Friday
afternoons.
“I assign the students special
projects such as testing the nutrition
of hooved animals and checking the
animals for parasites,” Brown said.
“The students often have to de
cide what would be the best medica
tion for an animal or decide if the
medication should be given to the
animal orally or be put into its food.
Sometimes it’s more of a strain on
the wild animals to do anything.
They sometimes get too nervous.”
Each year the American Associa
tion of Zoo Veterinarians gives a
$200 scholarship to the one student
who has the best project. Brown
said.
LaBlue said besides the veteri
nary students, other special groups
have visited WAI such as children
from day care centers, groups of
elementary children, schools for the
mentally retarded and senior citi
zens.
“It makes people happy to watch
animals and we feel that by provid
ing WAI, we are providing a very
needed service,” he said.
LaBlue said that WAI will be
opened from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Tuesday through Sunday and will be
closed on Mondays. Admission will
be $2 for adults, $1.50 for students
and $1 for children.
Another "udder
victory wanted
in Neb. elections
\
United Press International
OMAHA, Neb. — Stan Juelfs of
Kimball says his victory last weekend
in a cow milking contest was “a sign
of things to come on May 9,” the date
of the primary election.
Juelfs won the first-place award in
a milking contest that featured all
four of the Republican candidates for
governor.
The event was among those spon
sored by the Midlands chapter of the
National Agri-Marketing Association
to promote better understanding
between the consumer and the
farmer.
Juelfs award was inscribed, 1
Beat the Udder Guys.“
Battalion photo by Teresa Roach
Nice kitty . . .
Animal keeper Bill Calfee knows how to get along with tem
peramental friends — very carefully. Demotroie, a
5-month-old jaguar is at home at Wild Animals International,
which is located a mile and a half out of Byran on FM 2818.
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