Thursday, June 24, 2010

London Zoo (Set 2) #2


London Zoo 2-2, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Identified as Barbary Wild Sheep. Eloise Berchtold have one of these in her mixed wild animal act when she appeared at the Columbus (Ohio) Shrine Circus in 1967. (That engagement has special meaning for me since it was the first time I got to play in a circus band.) She told us that the Barbary sheep was one of toughest and meanest animals in her act.

2 comments:

GaryHill said...

Those look like Auodads.

Roger Smith said...

Eloise had that sheep when she was with us on Castle, in Indianapolis, in '73. There was a nearby coffee shop where we shared hours of jackpots. It was the last time I saw Eloise.