And he became a very wealthy man and he kept contact with Bushman, all the time he’d come over and see Bushman, and one day he and I had lunch together, and he said to me, he said, what are you gonna do when Bushman isn’t here anymore?… Read More
I said, I’ve been thinking about that because Bushman had injured his foot, sliding on the old wooden floor that was in the cage, and he loved to run and slide, but this had warped somehow rather, and the crack had separated and he cut his foot and there was… Read More
Well, yeah, there was a man here named Ivin Young, and Ivin Young had been a printing missionary for the American Presbyterian Mission in the Cameroons, and he had been there at the time that Bushman was at the mission station there, he knew him there, and admired him, and… Read More
Because they had tried this out on him on a control system, he was afraid of a lot of little things, like squeaky toys, you know, these little click, click, click things that look like a frog or toad or something, he was afraid of those, and we tried those… Read More
So he really was Lincoln Parks who’s first gorilla, and then after that, there were four others acquired?… Read More
How did you know that the alligator came in or the garter snake would scare him?… Read More
Well, they probably get wet, maybe it’s good for them to get wet, so he tried with the holes first and Bushman loved it, and so then he had, had a sprinkler system put in, where like a shower bath up at the top of the cage, and he used… Read More
So he very stealth fully, crept in there, safely opened this and reached in to get a bunch of grapes, and as he put the lid down he looked up and there was Bushman on the stairs, so Leo just turned and ran to the other side of the building,… Read More
Well, what do gorillas do when it rains?… Read More
Well, naturally old Paul Buck fell in love with Bushman and immediately he thought what a fine physical specimen he was, and how well oriented and imprinted he was to the people, and he decided that he would like to try and buy him. Well, at first, they didn’t want… Read More
Well, ’cause I think so because some of your original film of the zoo right segment shows him in ’28 in Africa. Yes, that’s right. As a youngster. Yes, that’s right. So. Classic footage. Yeah, well, Bushman was, just a fine physical specimen, and Eddie Robinson was his keeper, he… Read More
Well, I think he was captured in ’28 and brought here in ’30, wasn’t he?… Read More
Anyhow, Bushman became quite an institution within his own here in the zoo, but he was already here when I came here, and he was already a full grown gorilla when I came here in 1944, ’cause he came in here I think in 1930, Didn’t he?… Read More
2830 or something 28 maybe. Read More
Internationally, I don’t know. I don’t know either. Read More
How many girl has had their picture on the paper when they’ve died?… Read More
Yes, indeed. Read More
Leo Grimmer, yes. Yes, he was. Actually, many of them have gone on to other many zoo, zoo professions. That’s right, Leo quit here to go to Washington DC, to be assistant director there, and then he got tired of zoo work or something, and he decided he would retire… Read More
Yeah, for a lot of young professionals. yeah, yeah. In the beginning, we talk about the grade eight collection at Lincoln Park being world famous, and of course it got started one point, it didn’t become world famous overnight, nothing does. No, no. You were instrumental in starting some of… Read More
And was the first assistant director Leo Grimmer?… Read More