Hi Buckles..I found these pictures on the web and thought you might find them interesting..They are from Life Magazine and were taken by photographer Sam Shere in 1946..Margaret |
Monday, February 23, 2009
Bronx Zoo 1946 #1 (From Margaret)
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These were the three elephants Bronx got from the elephant training station at Gangala-na-Bodio in the eastern Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo, unless they’ve changed its name once again). That’s the same place Howard Bary had gotten the ones for RBBB ten year earlier.
The Bronx elephants came out by going down the Congo River whereas Bary took his down the Nile after a trek to the river port of Juba, Sudan.
The Bronx animals were comprised of 1-1 forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and 0-1 common bush elephant (Loxodonta africana). That’s the same species and sex ratio as the ones Bary landed here in 1936. Of course, Bary started out from Gangala with two more but they died en route.
The Bronx animals were male cyclotis Zangelima (Barney), female cyclotis Doruma (later Pinky); and common bush elephant Bamangwa.
Zangelima (Barney) became unmanageable and was put down on November 11, 1952
Bamangwa died at the zoo in 1950
Dourma (Pinky) lasted the longest, dying on March 1, 1970
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