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By PEKAY PETTUS
ZEBRAS grazing on the slopes of the Blue Ridge and Baetrian camels wandering in and out of what used to be a bull barn have caused some motorists to leave skid marks on the pavement of Route 522, south of Front Royal. But these are among the more ordinary animals, or at least something most people will recognize, in residence at the National Zoo’s Conservation Center. Now what if some of those tourists were to see a scimitar horned oryx, an Australian Rhea, a maned wolf or a crab eating fox?
All of these animals have been brought to Warren'-’ County to the National Zoo’s breeding farm. They have become “rare and endangered species” as wild places throughout the world are timbered out or plowed under for conversion to farmland, which in turn is consumed by suburban sprawl.
In early 1973, the National Zoo bought 2,800 acres of the former U.S. Army Remount Station, whicH had been established in 1909 as a place to breed horses and mules for the cavalry and was then later converted, in 1948, into a beef cattle research center, operated
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