Zen Orleans

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Monkey Island.

Monkey Island.

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Whalehead King
Sep 04, 2024
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Most people don’t know this but there used to an island full of monkeys in City Park. Sea lions, too. This is New Orleans.

The sea lion pool opened in 1958. I am not going to go into the particulars about how this came about. It is New Orleans. Those were different times.

There were three sea lions, one male and two females. The bull was named Bull.…

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