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There weren’t lots of ’em, but the big-time, like the Hunt brothers- Who were the Hunt brothers?… Read More

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Probably bought it from a dealer. “From a dealer.” Yeah, the dealers were originally…… Read More

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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

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Yeah?… Read More

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So did your father go off to do that?… Read More

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Or did he buy- Did your father buy Babe in Africa?… Read More

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By hunters. So was… That wasn’t born here. Oh, so they had caught it. Yeah, somebody in the wild. Read More

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By whom?… Read More

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Why’s that?… Read More

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In the wild. Read More

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No, was Babe’s- They got a divorce very young. (chuckles) Cheek, yeah. Was Babe the…… Read More

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No, most baby gorillas are taken from their parents. Read More

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Did something happen to his mother?… Read More

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(Robert chuckles) So how long d’you think they lived together?… Read More

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There’s writing on the back. Oh, that is Baby. Yeah. That is. ’50s. Aw, he’s looking fondly at it. Read More

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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

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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

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(staffer speaks indistinctly) That’s not Baby, is it?… Read More

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No?… Read More

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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