Little known zoological history triva.

Until Jim Alexander mentioned touring the Frankfurt Zoo and seeing the Grzimekhaus/Nocturnal House, and also "the cage where Marcan once performed", I had completely forgotten about the piece of ugliness that occurred a couple of years ago, involving the Frankfort Zoo and a certain Yugoslavian/Croation Animal Trainer, who shall remain anonymous, unless I slip up before I relate the tale. The photo above, is a picture of the ape house at Frankfurt which has a replica of Prof. Dr. Grzimek's zebra striped Dornier 27 mounted on the roof as a memorial to Grizmek. It seems this certain Yugoslavian/Croation Animal Trainer, was hammering and pestering Frankfurt round the clock for weeks, insisting that they install a memorial honoring him on the roof of the feline house, similar to the one for Prof. Dr. Grzimek on the ape house. He even had the audacity to send a picture to Frankfurt of what he expected his rooftop memorial to look like, see photo below. Finally out of desperation Frankfurt changed their phone number as well as their email address, and the anonymous Yugoslavian/Croation Animal Trainer hasn't been heard from since. That's the facts as they were relayed to me by Frankfurt staff. I am not passing judgment, just relaying what I have learned.


UPDATE TO THE ABOVE TALE:


Before you start deluging Frankfurt with emails telling them how unfair and ungrateful they are, you need to consider the gesture they have made. Frankfurt has agreed to use an existing mural, pictured above, in the feline house as a fitting memorial to the certain Yugoslavian/Croation Animal Trainer mentioned, who will still remain anonymous because, in addition to breeding the worlds first tabby tigers, he is also my friend. Frankfurt now refers to the rendering of a tree behind the tiger on the feline house mural as the "Ekeitment Stump," in recognition of this anonymous individual, who caused them no small amount of grief, in his insistence at having a memorial befitting him, installed on the roof of the feline house.