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.
Wade, we went to the Knoxville Zoo in June 2000. We saw Sita, the orange granddaughter of Bharat. In another enclosure were a littermate pair of tigers, one white and one heterozygous, named Ravi and Burma. They had been born at a circus passing through, and left at the Knoxville Zoo and hand-raised. I never did learn their lineage. All these tigresses are now deceased, and I don't know who is there now. The zoo enclosures were largely chain link, which surprised me. Mary Ann
Steve, Knoxville gained fame a number of years ago, by taking a rogue African male named Black Diamond off of Ringling Bros. hands(Ringling of old, I might add). He spend his like in a "menagerie" like concrete bunker with a small rusty, decrepit railroad tie outdoor pen, isolated in one corner of the zoo behind some hills. This may be the pen. Hell of a way for a social animal, to spend his days. Wade
Wade, we went to the Knoxville Zoo in June 2000. We saw Sita, the orange granddaughter of Bharat. In another enclosure were a littermate pair of tigers, one white and one heterozygous, named Ravi and Burma. They had been born at a circus passing through, and left at the Knoxville Zoo and hand-raised. I never did learn their lineage. All these tigresses are now deceased, and I don't know who is there now. The zoo enclosures were largely chain link, which surprised me.
ReplyDeleteMary Ann
Mary Ann,
ReplyDeleteWhy were you surprised at chain link?
Wade
Wade, because I associate chain link with smaller zoos that don't have much money, not larger municipal zoos.
ReplyDeleteMary Ann
Looks like this elephant has previously "left the reservation" judging by the addendum to the fence.
ReplyDeleteSteve,
ReplyDeleteKnoxville gained fame a number of years ago, by taking a rogue African male named Black Diamond off of Ringling Bros. hands(Ringling of old, I might add). He spend his like in a "menagerie" like concrete bunker with a small rusty, decrepit railroad tie outdoor pen, isolated in one corner of the zoo behind some hills. This may be the pen. Hell of a way for a social animal, to spend his days.
Wade