Let's evaluate the Clyde Beatty/Frank Buck/Marlin Perkins animal era

"Phil the gorilla, who lived at the Ape House from 1941 to 1958, was one of the all-time favorite animals at the Saint Louis Zoo
Sometime after his death on December 1, 1958, a mounted exhibit of Phil was prepared by Schwarz Studio. This exhibit of Phil is a part of the Safari Shop near the Zoo's South Gate entrance."


But no other animal in a Chicago-area zoo has ever drawn the crowds as Bushman did in his stark steel cage. On a single June day in 1950, about 120,000 people flocked to see Bushman when he was thought to be dying.
His mounted remains are displayed at the Field Museum of Natural History.

Let's look at a 21st century opinion:

Bosses at a Chicago zoo are hoping a gorilla which died 50 years ago
will still pull in the crowds since the other stuffed animals they have
been using have failed.

Bushman was stuffed before he died in the 1950s, but Lincoln Park Zoo
is giving him a prominent place among the exhibits in its Field Museum.

Museum president John McCarter said: "For every kid who grew up in Chicago
in the 1930s and '40s, a trip to the zoo to see Bushman was mandatory.
Bushman came to Chicago as an orphaned baby gorilla in 1930 and left in the
80's as a piece of furniture.

The intangible of magnetism /charisma are often used in the Beatty/Gebel debate. Acceptable if we accept the "political" difference in regards to animals in the 30's-60's and the 70's-00's. Which era was easier to succeed with animals should answer magnetism/charisma. Marlin Perkins was involved with the two fellows above. And I suggest Perkins was the transition/change between Buck and Hanna. As Robert Baudy/Gilbert Houcke may be suggested as the transition change between Beatty and Gebel. I am not sure, but maybe Joey Ratliff, our resident "zoo guy" can confirm. Are there any recent incidences of mounting and publicly displaying of the resident famous gorilla?