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MormonTimes.com: LDS member in Virginia is an accidental zoo owner

Published: Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008 12:24 a.m. MDT
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Jim Andelin never intended to own a zoo. Really.

It started with swans and pheasants. Then emus and European deer. Then kangaroos. Then a monkey. "Once that happened, it was all over," Andelin said. Yes, he got more monkeys — many more.

And that's how Andelin, a Latter-day Saint who lives in Moseley, Va. — just outside Richmond — got started on his path to owning and directing the Metro Richmond Zoo. Later came the lions, tigers, giraffes, rhinoceros, snakes, penguins and more.

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