Saturday, November 5, 2011
Old National Zoo Pachyderm/Elephant House
Some one help me out here. Wasn't the National Zoo the first zoo in the United State's to successfully breed and reproduce the Pygmy hippopotamus?
National Zoo Pachyderm/Elephant House--2008
It took the elephants to get a new facility built at the National Zoo. Not the giraffe, not the hippopotamus, and not even the capybara. Why has no one stepped up to Champion the cause of the noble, majestic capybara?
Circo Atayde(Aguilar) Hermanos
Last week we had considerably more room in animal tent. With the center dividers pulled out of the cage/beast wagons 8 animals have a total area of 46 feet by 8 feet in which to live. For folks that insist that an animal needs a large area at all times, I took the two pictures at the top to illustrate how Caliph and Luna prefer to utilize that larger area.
Circo Atayde(Aguilar) Hermanos
I didn't get much posted yesterday as we took delivery of our fourth cage/beast wagon earlier this week and myself and my great crew spent most of yesterday training and then shifting animals and getting it all to fit in the animal tent. The show currently has 35 felines. 13 gold tigers from the old act, 9 white and 9 gold tigers for the new act, and an exhibit pair of leopards and and an exhibit pair of jaguars. In addition to the 4 cage/beast wagons the show carries 6 rolling cages for the babies and for training purpose's. Plans call for the elimination of all rolling cages, with the exception of one which is being converted at the moment into a squeeze cage at my insistence(or whining and bitching which was suggested a week ago) :), and a fifth cage/beast wagon is currently in production and when completed the tent will be enlarged to better accommodate everything. Two of the cage/beast wagons housing the 13 act tigers will be leaving for another show, when the new act is completed and we will then only have three cage/beast wagons and a squeeze cage to account for. We have to unhook all the towing vehicles, which caused some pissing and moaning with the transportation department, but after "skillful negotiations" they accepted what I wanted to do, and respectfully replied, "Si, pinche madre Gringo." I think that means The King or O Great One. Neat, huh.
Six mornings a week the two cage/beast wagons on the far left housing the act tigers are pulled out and taken to the front where they are washed and prepared for the daily street parade, and the other two cage/beast wagons/rolling cages are moved over in their place so we can use the tunnel/chute to get the cat's into the arena with the rolling cages pushed up to the arena. As I said earlier I am blessed with a great crew of men who hustle to get it all moved and shifted for practice, only to reverse the process and get it all back in order for a 6:15 daily show.
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