Friday, September 18, 2009

Hamburg Zoo--1900

4 comments:

Ryan Easley said...

Wade, did old exhibits like this where elephants could reach the public ever end in bad scenarios?

Wade G. Burck said...

Radar,
You would assume so, which is why it changed. Yet I don't recall ever hearing about an elephant incident with the public. It historically has tended to be felines, bears, or primates.
Wade

Richard Reynolds said...

I think this may be the now extinct Hambug zoo which predated Hagenbeck's place.

Wade G. Burck said...

Richard,
Not that Hagenbecks was not a fabulous zoo, but I have often wondered, how much of it's success was a matter of being in the right place, at the right time.
Wade