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A Blog designed for discussion of topics related to, but not limited to, Circus, Zoos, Animal Training, and Animal Welfare/Husbandry. Sometimes opening up the dialog is the best starting point of all. And if for nothing else when people who agree and don't agree, get together and start discussing it, it will open up a lot of peoples minds. Debate and discussion even amongst themselves opens a window where there wasn't one before.
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Wade. Cool. I especially like old correspondence. I've seen some of the letters between Frank Buck and the Philly Zoo outlining what the park would be willing to pay for specific species. With snakes, especially the big pythons the price was by the foot -- incentive to stretch they as much as possible when measuring.
Thanks!
Ben
Ben,
A beef I have with the Curator is all that rubber 2 headed baby, chicken with a duck foot coming out its eye, piglet with a horses hoof sticking out its ass, frogs playing the tamborine, garbage that he accumulates. Not the good treasures like zoo correspondence and artifacts that I have collected. I'll let him waste his time and space with Cupacabras and Fiji mermaids. I have a button from a Carl Hagenbeck zoo uniform jacket, and a Bushman monkey chow bisket in half eaten condition.
Wade Burck
Ben,
Speaking of snakes, Curator wanted to sell a Python one time. By the time he was through measuring it he had a priceless ribbon snake.
Wade Burck
Philadelphia, September 1796
PEALE’S MUSEUM. A visit to Mr. Peale’s museum, Prudence Pudding tells us, is well worth the admission fee of one fourth of a dollar, if only to see the huge American Buffalo. Peale’s rooms are filled with monsters of the earth and sea, a rich array of birds, and a great collection of the bones, jaws, and teeth of tigers, sharks, and many other fearful animals. In one room are rattle, black, and spotted snakes, confined in cases enclosed with wire and glass. She was astonished to see Mr. Peale take out a black snake about four or five feet long feet long, which he permitted to touch his cheek and twine itself around his neck. In the yard and stable were eagles, owls, baboons, monkeys, and a six-footed cow. Mr. Peale is also a painter, and there can be seen in his museum more than a hundred portraits of the more noteworthy personages of our country, including our illustrious Washington.
Wade Excuse me....My Collection-O-Crap makes me $$$$, Yours...impresses Ben & Casey....nough said....The Curator
Jim Z,
Until you have seen the look on Bens face picking through a bag of snake sheds, or a box of crushed turtle carapaces, trying to guess not only the year of the car that ran over it, but also the speed at which it was traveling, you don't realize money isn't everything. Some things just don't have a price.
Wade
Owing both a few letters of zoological interest and a genuine Sasquatch skull I'd like to think that I am impressed by both Mr Burck's collection, and the museum of natural curiosities presented by the Curator. Granted Capt. McCoy and I are both suckers in our own right, but as discriminating suckers give us our do. A button from the jacket of Herr Hagenbeck is pretty cool -- though maybe not as cool as the sliver of the true cross that my wife once bought me in Jerusalem. The Curator's bovine wonders are equally astounding and I look forward to the addition of girl/gorilla illusion, not because I really believe that the girl actually turns into a gorilla, but rather because most girls working such illusions are well endowed and scantily clad. I myself lounge around the popcorn popper every afternoon awaiting that perfect kernel toasted until it represents the visage of Our Savior. Don't laugh...it'll happen... And when I post that one on Ebay, I'll finally be able to retire.
Ben
No "curiosity" compares with Zych's "Tyrone the Terrible" he has it all.
Freaky looking critter.....Check
Empty 40 oz..........Check
Racial innuendo......Check
Felt Fedora..........Check
Top all that with an awesome gold tooth display, and Tyrone gets the money every time.
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