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One of those other animals is a year-old female who was nicknamed Little One because she is so much smaller than her poolmate. Big Guy will probably keep his name, but Little One will probably get a new one, Hansen said. Big Guy and Little One are scheduled to leave on a FedEx plane out of Los Angeles on May 3, accompanied by two zookeepers, Hansen said. They will stop in Oakland to pick up the third sea lion and then head for Salt Lake City. Their new home is called Rocky Shores, a state-of-the-art, mixed species exhibit designed to mimic the Northwest coastline, Hansen said. There is a 14-year-old polar bear from the Cincinnati Zoo, three grizzly bears from Buffalo, N.Y., two otters from the Midwest, three seals from the Los Angeles Zoo, and some bald eagles, rescued because they can't fly. The grizzly bears include two sisters and a brother. In August 2010, their mother killed a man and injured two people when she mauled them at a campground outside Yellowstone National Park. She was euthanized but the cubs were placed in foster care, first in Montana, then in Buffalo. All of the animals will be quarantined for 30 days ahead of the June 1 opening of Rocky Shores. Hogle broke ground in the fall of 2010, long after Big Guy's wounds had healed. The pool and people alone make it worth the wait. He's be sharing a 175,000-gallon salt water pool with his fellow pinnipeds. And then there are the visitors. The zoo had a million of them last year and expects another million this year.
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