Coincidentally, there’s another Winnie the Whale swimming through Kansas City history. In 1956, a two-ton, 16-foot-long concrete whale by the same name made its debut at the zoo.

But, Kansas City kids from the 1950s and 1960s might remember a different whale. It turns out the Great Blue Whale had an ancestor named Winnie. Credit Kansas City Zoo Archives ...

The Kansas City Zoo opened in 1909 with a modest collection of animals: four lions, three monkeys, a fox, a wolf, a coyote, a badger, a lynx, an eagle and some other birds. Since then, it has ...