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How the World’s Greatest Ram Nearly Ended Up in the Landfill

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Chadwick ram display
PJ DelHomme
Published in Summer 2026 Fair Chase

In a forgotten, dilapidated building at the Bronx Zoo, the world’s greatest ram sat behind a pile of garbage. It was January 20, 1977, and Lowell Baier was in New York, working to save specimens of the greatest North American heads and horns.

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