Note the white zebras, upper left. Brian Hunt gave me an 8 X10 of one of them with a normal colored foal. I am looking for it now. Does any one know what happened to them, or if they are still around?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The Hunt's-- safari park/holding area/quarantine station
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Wade G. Burck
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Wade. according to the website, the white zebras are still in Port Clinton, Ohio.
http://www.africansafariwildlifepark.com/
Joe's sister has taken her family there. We've never gone because they don't have carniovores, and herbivores aren't all that interesting. African Lion Safari in Cambridge Ontario was really awesome. They used to have white and orange tigers in a very large open area that you could drive through, along with a pond where you could watch them splash and swim, and the tigers used to walk right up to the cars. We went in 1997 and 2000, and really enjoyed it. They haven't had the tigers for a few years now.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann-I wonder who the white tiger is in this picture-possibly Ranjit, Bharat, or Priya? Why don't you tell Wade why the African Lion Safari no longer has tigers, why they were sued?
Paul,
Didn't somebody open the car door, and attempt to get a picture? And got a real "wildlife experience" instead.
A lot of safari parks, not all are real animal "hell holes", the ones in Japan are horrendous. My brother tells stories of his time at Thouiry outside of Paris, that will curl your hair. But because the animals have "lots of room" they are often deemed wonderful, by the public.
Wade
Wade-I'm not sure if they opened the door or just the window or what. I've heard a story about one of these safari parks, probably Longleat, where a family got out of their car in the lions' enclosure to have a picnic, but fortunately they were discovered before anyone got hurt. I know a lot of safari parks are awful places. PS The white zebras are amazing.
I don't know why the white zebra have never gotten much press? I can only assume it is because Siegfried and Roy didn't use any. If they had, everybody would have wanted one.
Wade
Wade, it was a young couple who ruined it for everyone. The young man was an accordian player who claimed that he could no longer play because of tendon and muscle damage, and the young lady was a stripper who claimed that she could no longer be a featured performer because of the scars, and needed money to go back to school to work in a nursing home. They claimed that a tiger bumped up against the car, startling the young man into lowering the driver's side window and the passenger window simultaneously. The judge disallowed testimony from an expert that said this was impossible.
Mary Ann
Maybe it's because you take the stripes off a zebra and all you're left with is a white ass.
Ranjit, Priya, and Bharat went to the Texas location, but this is the Ohio location. I'll have to look that one up, but in any case, they don't have them anymore.
Mary Ann
Paul,
Yet the goofy "snow whites" were quite popular.
Wade
I grew up outside of Sandusky. There are a couple people at the African Safari Wildlife Park that I have talked to before.
Going back to the beginning, the Lions had an open area where the cars drove through. The tigers were in a walk around area made up mostly of corn crib cages.
At the end of the season, everything went back to Texas. Then it got to the point that just the caged animals went back to Texas. Now nothing moves. The manager and his brother had their own private stock there as well until they had a falling out a while back and moved all of the brother's stock off of the property. Everything stays there all winter now. And as Mary Ann said, there are no caged animals there anymore.
Bob
Wade, what is the date on the Ohio brochure? Paul, if what Bob Cline says is true about the animals moving between Ohio and Texas, then it is possible that the white tiger in the picture is of Ranjit, Priya, or Bharat.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
I picked up in 1986 when I was there.
Wade
Paul, there you have it. It could well have been Ranjit, Priya, or Bharat, newly arrived. And John Seidensticker always told me he didn't know what happened to them. LOL
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
In reference to you comment about being grateful, the greatest thing about the animal world, is each time you say, "there it is", something else pops up to say, "there it isn't". It is so very important to be opened mined, and correcting in the hopes of being corrected. No name callings, and accusations of jealousy is indeed refreshing, and may indicate why I have been more comfortable in a "different world" from that which I earn a living.
Wade
Here is Joe's sister's e-mail account of her visit to African Safari Wildlife Park in Ohio:
"They may have had white zebras but they didn't have carnivores. It was a bit silly actually. You drove thru this park (more like a field) and they gave you food to feed the "wild" animals. There wasn't much wild about them as they blocked your car (the bison/buffalo) until you handed
over the food. You got to get real close to giraffes tho but couldn't
feed them as they were way above you. All that we got out of it was a very stinky car." LOL
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
When I was a child I used to build "my zoo" outside using sticks and stones. I envisioned riding elephants through Asia, getting off and riding covered wagons through North America/Canada, getting out and riding Ankole oxcart through Africa. I also dug a ditch/moat as Hagenbeck suggested, as I didn't want the animals near the people. My childlike imagination was always disappointed with the "Drive thru safari" that became so popular years ago", particularly with their mandatory "amusement park."
Wade
Wade, thanks for also sharing the childhood dreams, and yes it has been refreshing to discuss without name calling and accusations of jealousy. It's really all about putting pieces of a puzzle together in a cooperative manner, and learning from each other.
Mary Ann
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