I don’t know if he had to buy a ticket or not for Tia, but close to the downtown train station, it started to have a heart attack or something. I don’t remember this. to give it mouth-to-mouth on the train. Musta been quite an ordeal, giving an orangutan, on… Read More
But I suppose, if you invest a lot in something like that, it’s… The pair cost 4,500, which does not seem to be so much, really, but I guess, back then, it certainly was. But insuring animals was big business at that time. Read More
What was the other one? Tia?… Read More
You don’t remember any of this?… Read More
There weren’t lots of ’em, but the big-time, like the Hunt brothers- Who were the Hunt brothers?… Read More
They were dealers in wild-animal wildlife of some consequence. They were big-time. They brought in anything and everything. Huh, I guess I’m sort of glad that don’t have that sort of thing going on so much anymore. It doesn’t seem right to just go over there and take that thing… 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
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
Yeah?… Read More
Probably bought it from a dealer. “From a dealer.” Yeah, the dealers were originally…… 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 hunters. So was… That wasn’t born here. Oh, so they had caught it. Yeah, somebody in the wild. Read More
Why’s that?… Read More
In the wild. Read More
By whom?… Read More
No, was Babe’s- They got a divorce very young. (chuckles) Cheek, yeah. Was Babe the…… Read More
No, most baby gorillas are taken from their parents. Read More
Did something happen to his mother?… 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