“Gally is Gally — he’s got marks all over his face every game,” Richardson said.

“Gally is Gally. He’s got marks all over his face every game,” Richardson said Tuesday.

New zoo exhibits include giant panda cub Xiao Qi Ji, Amur tiger Mitas, Przewalski’s horse mother-son duo Barbie and Cooper, Komodo dragon juvenile Onyx, Andean bear Brienne, American bison Lucy and Gally, California sea lion Charger and North American beaver Poplar, a wallaby joey and a kudu calf, according to a zoo press statement.

“There’s extensive primary source documentation to show the American colonies were bases of operation for pirates,” said Bailey, 53, who holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Rhode Island and worked as an archaeological assistant on explorations of the Wydah Gally pirate ship wreck off Cape Cod in the late 1980s.

Gallaudet picked the name Gally — a diminutive of “Gallaudet” — and Howard chose Lucy, after Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first dean of women at Howard and the first African American woman to hold that position at a U.S. university.