Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 764
There weren’t lots of ’em, but the big-time, like the Hunt brothers- Who were the Hunt brothers?… Read More
There weren’t lots of ’em, but the big-time, like the Hunt brothers- Who were the Hunt brothers?… Read More
And then, it looks like they’re with your father. There was a fight to save an orangutan. Yeah, I remember this story more from, I think, my mother telling it to me. It was a pair. There were Tai-Pang and…… Read More
Yeah?… Read More
Probably. So he went over there and- No, he didn’t. I don’t know who. Well, he often went over there. He could have. Well, he could have, yeah, but I don’t think he did. Read More
Probably bought it from a dealer. “From a dealer.” Yeah, the dealers were originally…… Read More
By hunters. So was… That wasn’t born here. Oh, so they had caught it. Yeah, somebody in the wild. Read More
So did your father go off to do that?… Read More
Or did he buy- Did your father buy Babe in Africa?… Read More
By whom?… Read More
Why’s that?… Read More
In the wild. Read More
No, was Babe’s- They got a divorce very young. (chuckles) Cheek, yeah. Was Babe the…… Read More
Did something happen to his mother?… Read More
No, most baby gorillas are taken from their parents. Read More
There’s writing on the back. Oh, that is Baby. Yeah. That is. ’50s. Aw, he’s looking fondly at it. Read More
(Robert chuckles) So how long d’you think they lived together?… Read More
(staffer speaks indistinctly) That’s not Baby, is it?… Read More
Yes, we did. We’d go visit him, and he was something else. (Robert laughs) I was young, but I still knew that much. Read More
Mm-hmm. He was a wild man. He also had his own little animal park. He was a bit of a redneck wild guy. Oh yeah, he was. (Janet laughs) Probably still is. On the Ozarks, we would go out there to visit him. We owned property there. Read More
Earl Tatum, was he a animal dealer?… Read More