Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 760
Or did he buy- Did your father buy Babe in Africa?… Read More
Or did he buy- Did your father buy Babe in Africa?… 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
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
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
(staffer speaks indistinctly) That’s not Baby, is it?… Read More
No?… Read More
No, very, very few animal dealers, like the Frank Thompsons, so very few of them now, and again, as you said, Janet, publicity was a lot more… They really worked at it then, to this kind of photo that got press for the zoo. They don’t do that anymore. No,… Read More
Earl Tatum, was he a animal dealer?… Read More
No. (scoffs) “Yeah. No.” Was it before your…… Read More
I don’t know. I don’t know when it is. You bought it from a New York animal dealer. The price depends on the length, so you buy it by the foot. Yeah, that’s something, d’you know, I wonder, all these animal dealers, ’cause they were big at collecting. Dealers are… Read More
What year you think this was?… Read More
(laughs) Yeah. You tie a goat up to a post. And then, around that post, you would- Two posts. You have a post here and then a ring of posts around it that were separated wide enough for the snake to get in, but once it at the goat or… Read More
D’you remember when that anaconda came?… Read More