Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Ghost Exhibit--Brookfield Zoo's Mountain Goat and Monkey Island

1940

Photo's from 1946 of the Electric Eye Monkey Trap used at the Brookfield Zoo

1 comment:

Jim A. said...

At least in the early 1960s there was no water in the moat. When it came time to bring in the baboons Director Bean would stand on the "mountian". Keepers would go about netting the baboons. When the aoudads would run by Bean would let out a warning call and the keepers would scramble then return to netting monkeys. Sounds scary to me but it worked. Toward the end of baboons on the island they had access to heated quarters inside the mountain and stayed there year around.