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Zebras have returned to the Fort Worth Zoo after an absence of five years, zoo staff announced in a news release and on social media Friday.<\/p>\n

Visitors to the African Savanna<\/a> can now see Pegasus and Hercules, two young half-brothers. The species was a fixture at the zoo from 1923 until 2021, when they were moved out to make room for the lion yard in the Predators of Asia and Africa<\/a> habitat.<\/p>\n

Fort Worth Zoo executive director Michael Fouraker said they built a new barn and renovated a rhino habitat to accommodate the two zebras.<\/p>\n

“After their departure in 2021, we realized just how much our guests missed their presence in the park,” Fouraker said in the news release. “We knew we needed to find a way to bring them back.”<\/p>\n

The African Savanna, which opened in 2018, was phase one of A Wilder Vision, the zoo’s $130 million capital campaign and building project. The next two phases, Elephant Springs<\/a> and Predators of Asia and Africa, opened in 2021 and 2023 respectively.<\/p>\n

The fourth and final phase, Forests and Jungles of the World<\/a>, is under construction with a targeted opening in 2028, according to the zoo’s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zebras have returned to the Fort Worth Zoo after an absence of five years, zoo staff announced in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9454,46903,116,118,117,7227,146073,146181,146075,99987,146182],"class_list":["post-419605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-9454","tag-african","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-zoo","tag-fouraker","tag-hercules","tag-hercules-and-pegasus","tag-pegasus","tag-the-african-savanna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}