In the photo above taken in 1929, at Hagenbeck's Tierpark it look's like a different keeper from the photo below, date unknown, also taken at Hagenbeck's. Is it Emil Warnecke? Goliath was with the Ringling show in 1928 with a keeper named Emil Warnecke(type Goliath Hagenbeck in the search bar on the top left) who went back to Hamburg with him. The gentleman below looks like the gentleman in the clip taken at Basel in 1938. Is that the case? In August 1938 Goliath(or is this a "different" Goliath) was sent from Hamburg to the Basel Zoo and a month later in September he went back to Hamburg. Prof. Reynolds, why did Hagenbeck send Goliath(if it was "Goliath" as it looks younger then the 1929 Goliath above) to Basel? As an "attraction/drawing card" for Basel, or was there another reason? One month seems a short time for the effort it must have taken to load him, transport him, and then bring him back. Goliath and how they "hauled" him around "back in the day," is to me one of the most incredible stories in the annuals of captive animal husbandry. How in the world did they manage not to kill him quickly?
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Goliath the Elephant Sea--1934 Hamburg to Basel Road Trip
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Wade G. Burck
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Hi, this is fabulous! I have some old fotos from a trip my mother's uncle made to Hamburg in 1939, and I think I recognize the sea-elephantfeeder from the old film-clip. I have also some other fotos from his day in Hagenbeck, which I can send to you if you contact me on my mailadress. I work as an artist, and get much inspiration from these fotos.
Hanne,
Welcome to CircusNOSpin. We surely would like to see any old zoo pictures taken at Hamburg. Thank you for the offer. You can send them to me at wburck3@aol.com. We would also be interested in seeing some of your zoo artwork, if there is a way to photograph it, and email as zoo art is a special interest of mine. Again, thank you for your kind offer and will look forward to you pictures.
Wade
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