Balto - Central Park
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Added to the Park in 1925. A beloved canine hero stands on a rock outcropping on the main path leading north from the Tisch Children’s Zoo. A slightly larger-than-life bronze sculpture honors Balto, the black and white Siberian husky who led a dogsled team through a blizzard to deliver an antitoxin needed to halt a diphtheria epidemic. The driver of the team described the trip to reporters at the time: "I couldn't see the trail. Many times I couldn't even see my dogs, so blinding was the gale. I gave Balto, my lead dog, his head and trusted to him. He never once faltered. It was Balto who led the way. The credit is his." Balto survived the journey and spent the rest of his life in the Cleveland zoo. He died in 1933 and can still be seen — stuffed and mounted — in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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