Included in the expedition’s personnel was Roy L. Jennier from the Washington Zoo’s staff. (Col. Herriott recently posted some comments about Roy and his brother Walter. According to the Colonel, Roy was later the National Zoo’s head keeper.) The caption for this photo, showing Roy with a black Sumatran gibbon, pointed out the adhesive tape on his hand “which shows that even experienced handlers of animals do get bitten or clawed.” |
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
1937 Mann Expedition #2
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I must say, 76 years as boy and man amongst various wild beasts and I never once got monkey bit.
I left that to the Stevens and Hall families.
Buckles,
The Steven's and Hall's can keep all the damn monkey's and ape's. In 35 years of animal training, I have never been monkey bit either. I don't anticipate that situation changing anytime soon, unless one of the evil bastard's get's loose and some how get's through immigration, and come's searching for me in Mexico. Carmen used to "sic" Suki her male Mandrill on me as some kind of demented joke that she and her sick twist of a brother James C. Hall somehow found deranged pleasure in. I still don't sleep well thinking about those flashing white eyelids and gaping mouth with fangs that were at least, each one, 3 1/2 foot long.
Wade
..Wade..I remember on Clyde Bros, when Kirby's chimps got loose on one of the outside dates, I believe you caught up with the one in the seats didn't you.? LOL..I'll never forget watching my sister Julee go over that fence in one stride, the clown? behind her didn't make it..Margaret..
I'll take that back!
I was monkey bit at the Shrine date at Montreal in 1963.
It was in the morning and I was sitting on a bale of hay by the elephants minding my own business when the arena door opened and in came the Rosaires and their animals returning from a TV publicity spot.
Their little dogs came running down the passage way ahead of everything else so I jumped up to open the door on their pen when I heard someone shout "Watch it."
I looked up to see "Chico" the 200 lb. chimp on a dead run who proceeded to knock me down and drive me about 10 feet across the floor.
Derek got him off me before any damage was done other than scrapes and bruises.
The worst thing was that among the gathering crowd I heard Bobby Gibbs say to Bill Johnson, "Hey look! Chico got another goof!" and Bill snapped, "Shut up, it's Buckles."
lol, you all made my day !!lol
LOL ! good stuff Buckles ! And I have also met Sumi at Carmens kitchen table! By the way Buckles my son was elated to have you spend some time with him on his visit here. Thank you. love to Barbara
I have been trying to remember how Bobby Gibbs and Bill Johnson should have fit into my monkey story and now it comes to me that this was Dobritch' first year in Montreal having taken the date from Hamid who had played it for many years and out of spite day and dated us.
Bobby, Bill and Al Vidbel had just walked in the building at the time of the atrocity.
I might add that during that evenings opening performance while Derek was entering the back curtain, "Chico" grabbed Robert Baudy by the boots and flipped him upside-down but was but was greeted by the butt end of a whip stock.
I think Derek was more shocked than anybody.
About 1971 or 1972 I was monkey bit!Cute story!The Chimps name was Wendy if I remember right!Singh had told me not to tease her!I still remember the bite though,really really hurt.I have never since teased any Chimp or any other kind of monkey LOL.Rick
MAD,
Yes, but only because I was new to show business, stupid, and thought I was invincible, having a short time before pulled the bear off of Jose Barada. Andrew lost a finger in that deal, when the big old chimp, that looked more like a dwarf gorilla, he managed to hang on to, wrapped the leash around his finger so tight the finger had to be amputated at the knuckle. After that I became a fence jumper when anything went simian.
Baudy should have killed that prick Chico when he had that willow up side his head.
Wade Burck
Wade Burck
The only scars I have are from the little black bear Janice and Mike had at CW. She ran one morning and I chased her for Janice and when I grabbed the nap of her neck she raked her claws across my left hand..Not bad but still there...
We had the chimp acts before the liberty acts and where standing by the curtain to let the chimps go out so we could enter with the horses when Jack Rodin's big chimp jumped on Wolfgang Holzmeier and knocked him down. Jack had trouble holding on to the other chimps and Wolfgang was having a fight with this angry chimp on the floor. So I graped a shovel that was near by and hit the monkey on the head as hard as I could and he let go and looked at me so I hit him again and then he took of and went over to Jack and graped his leg and did the screaming shit chimps do when the get scared or angry. Before spec Jack came over to me as I was standing by the elephants and wanted to pick a fight with me for trying to kill his chimp so I told him he better don't piss me of because I had a hook in my hands and that this hook would hurt if he gets it on his head. Him and his wife ever spoke to me again for the rest of the season.
Jack Rhodin was a first class asshole. He let his chimp buggy creep up behind Mary Ruth in the back door waiting to go on and the chimp grabbed her and he laughed. But he got smart at a show party and was talking bad at us and I cold cocked him with one punch.johnny
John Milton,
Thank you. That is a by God world class jackpot!!!! I'm glad you are feeling well. :)
Wade Burck
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