And the man that did that training was a old circus hand named Gabe Davis. Gabe Davis had been with the Ring Brothers in Barnum and Bailey Circus with their elephants and their livestock, including giraffes for many years, and then he’d settled and was a head keeper at the San Diego Zoo at the time. And Gabe, his family was the zoo. He was a beloved typical heart of gold old circus hand that had knew all the tricks. He knew (indistinct), he knew animal behavior from the practical standpoint. And he had been training this giraffe to lower its head by hand feeding it its favorite food. And its favorite food was onions, big, round, softball-sized, tennis ball-sized onions cut in half. He’d feed them one half onion at a time.
