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Busch Gardens participates in the American Zoological and Aquarium Association (AZA) Species Survival Plan (SSP) to ensure genetic diversification among threatened and endangered animals in zoological facilities. Their second calf, Dakari, was born in August 2006, and their third, Crash, was born in May 2008.
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