Thursday, December 22, 2011

Elephant Keepers--London Zoo



4 comments:

  1. If you're interested, this is the famous bull "Jumbo", during his younger years, along with his keeper Matthew Scott.

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  2. Anonymous,
    Of course I am interested. I had no idea this was Jumbo. The keeper looked familiar, but I couldn't place him. Thank you for the information. Who are you, if I may ask?

    Wade

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  3. Hi Wade,

    I'm the anonymous that left the comment. Researching captive elephants has always been a hobby of mine and I like collecting books/materials on the subject.

    I don't know if you're aware of this book, titled "London Zoo from old photographs", but it contains fascinating images from 1852-1914 of the old London Zoo.....54 pages just on their elephants alone.

    Regarding Suffa Culli's ear, there is a photo of her as a calf and she seems to have normal shaped ears. It seems that some tissue was lost later on in life which resulted in the odd looking adult ears.


    Andy

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  4. Andy,
    If she had "normal" shaped ears as a younger, by the looks of them in the picture as an adult we might assume that they were frozen at some point, sloughing the outer edges.

    Wade

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