Through the Years at Marine World Africa USA from Greg Orrante on Vimeo.
Gone but not forgotten: Marine World Africa USA : The Poop
Nice clip of "memories" with Dave McMillian's tigers and Ron Whitfields lions and tigers.Courtesy of Thomas Bonner
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Ghost Zoo--Jungle Land, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Photo above 1976
Entrance above and machine shop and hay barn below. 1969 Highway 101 in the background.
Jungleland Exhibit
Animal cages above with monkey cage on the right, and hippo pool below in 1969. For a time the hippo pool was used as a skateboard park.
This is a wonderful link with some actual "true" Jungle Land fact's as well as some great footage of Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley doing a piece on the Jungle Land auction.
JUNGLELAND SKATES: Skateboarding site dedicated to the legend ...
Ghost Zoo--Jungle Land, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Bear exhibit 1966 above and 1963 below. To have the bear surrounded by water with "dry islands" seems an odd exhibit idea. I heard one time that the bear exhibit was originally a sea lion pool/exhibit. Does anyone know it that is correct?
Bear exhibit above in 1979, home to a stray dog and her pups.
Ghost Zoo--Jungle Land, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Chucko the Birthday Clown. 1965
Photo's above and below. 1965 I have never seen a "pony ride" in which the animals walk in a trench like in the photo above. Does anyone else know of this method being used?
Ghost Zoo--Jungle Land, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Although a number of "famous" folks passed through Jungle Land, one you may not be familiar with, that I consider one of the most famous was Dr. Robert Miller, pictured above in 1966 with a baby elephant. Dr. Miller wrote a ground breaking book in 2003 on foal imprinting revolutionizing how a foal was handled in it's first minutes of life. A practice that is carried on today in, I would wager most every horse breeding operation in the world as well as by elephant breeding centers and zoo's. It is available from Amazon.com and even if you don't have horse's, but are interested in animal behavior it is a highly recommended book. I got my copy the day it came out.
Dr. Robert M. Miller: Horse Training, Horse Behavior, Natural ...
Dr. Robert M. Miller is a world renowned speaker and author on Horse Behavior and Natural Horsemanship. He is also father of the revolutionary foal training technique known as "imprint training".
In his 30 years as an equine veterinarian, Dr. Miller has always been an innovator. Over the past 25 years, he has become a mentor to natural horsemanship clinicians around the world. His ability to explain how and why the clinicians training techniques are so effective has made him a driving force in the movement towards better, more humane, AND more effective training of horses.
The "other side" of Dr. Miller is well known among both veterinarians and cowboy poetry & humor enthusiasts. His cartoons, done under his initials RMM, have been published in veterinary and horse magazines around the world. He has been featured at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame's Cowboy Cartoonist Art Show.
"This quote from Dr. Miller's bio above "His ability to explain how and why the clinicians training techniques are so effective" is what I have always felt is the difference between good training and bad, and where abuse enters. Most trainer's don't know the "why" of what an animal does. They know that if they do a certain thing, the animal will respond a certain way. That's the elementary of animal training. The "why" they do it is the masters degree. When you understand the "why" it is no longer a mystery, but rather an incredible fascination. Understanding the "why" will eliminate any abuse in training, if you stop being impressed with yourself and what you taught the animal, and instead be impressed with what the animal is able to do, and most importantly, "WHY."
Ghost Zoo--Jungle Land, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Jungle Land elephants filming a car commercial in 1968
Ghost Zoo--Jungle Land, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Photo above 1963 and photo below 1966
Photo above 1966 and photo below 1960
Elephant show above 1959 Trainers unknown.
Ghost Zoo--Jungle Land, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Looking out from where the cage string used to be at the place where the arena sat. Concession stand in the back ground on the right. 1969
Cage string with the performance building on the end. The building is seen in the lion act pictures in a thread below. 1969
Cage string above looking out the the performance area. 1969
Cage string above 1969. I think the cage string was left intact for quite some time. Does anybody know when/if they were ever removed? It looks like they had metal sheeting for walls. It must have been hotter then everything in the summer. The small door's, with the door at the front instead of at the back for shifting were an antiquated standard operating procedure, surprisingly still occasionally seen today.
Ghost Zoo--Jungle Land, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Mable Stark's tigers three photo's above in 1963, and photo below 1959.
Ghost Zoo--Jungle Land, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Lion acts 1964 above and 1959 below. Trainers unknown.
Ghost Zoo--Jungle Land, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
The Tyndall brothers guide one of Louis Goebel's camels over to the Conejo School to be part of the Christmas pageant in the 1940s
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