Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Memphis Zoo 1948


Scan10400, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

"This picture was taken in April of 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee at the Overton Park Zoo."

Posted by Buckles at 7/09/2008 06:29:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

The slightest loss of balance and you have a badly injured elephant. These sorts of dangerous moats turned up in zoos in the 1920s and 1930s and I get the impression a lot of elephants were injured falling in. It happened to Ziggy with the indoor moat at Brookfield zoo. To cut down on such, some zoos put sharp spikes along the edge of the moats to discourage what we see here. That looked cruel.

It is much better to have the half moat or “ha-ha.” In them the ground on the inside slopes down toward a wall over which the animal cannot climb. The public is usually behind a retaining fence a few feet away from the wall which, on the public’s side, is quite short.

10 July, 2008 17:37

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