World's first captive breeding of Ozark hellbenders at Saint Louis Zoo
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
The Saint Louis Zoo's Ron Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation and the Missouri Department of Conservation announced on Nov. 30, 2011, that Ozark hellbenders have been bred in captivitya first for either of the two subspecies of hellbender. This decade-long collaboration has yielded 63 baby hellbenders.
