Keepers handling thier charges was a common occurrence, in the "good old days".
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Philadelpha Zoo--1940
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Wade G. Burck
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Not only was it more fun in the good old days working with animals it might have been worth it. I heard tales of keepers going in with animals or bringing them out for visitors and getting tips. I know the chimp keepers in STL did pretty well in the good old days.
That was a Jim A. comment. I just got excited thinking about taking a sea lion out for photos and passing the hat.
Jim,
The person who posted these photos, taken by their grandfather, noted that he got them, by giving the keepers cigars and cigarettes, in exchange for getting close for the photos. Elephant grooms in the circus used to set the "favor mark" much higher for the opportunity to pet or photograph their charges. LOL
Wade
This is the female Indian rhino Peggy collected for the zoo by Frank Buck in 1923.
She was one of two that Buck got out of Nepal. He devoted two chapters to that expedition in his book **Bring ‘Em Back Alive** (1930). The other one, Bessie, went to the Bronx zoo at the same time. Peggy died at Philadelphia in 1943. She is shown here in the outdoor yard of the new elephant house which opened in 1941. So, that should mean the photo was taken in 1941 or maybe 1942.
The Philadelphia zoo once had a TV program which was broadcast nationally. In or about 1952 I saw an episode (on an Atlanta station) that featured the zoo’s rhinos. There was a film clip of Peggy being run through a temporary runway or chute leading from her old enclosure to the new place. She was disoriented by the strange situation and tried to turn around and run back the way she had come.
There are lots of photos from the “old days” showing keepers and others riding rhinos in zoos.
http://funlok.com/index.php/places/worlds-most-dangerous-and-controversial-zoo-30122009.html
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