Friday, March 09, 2012

"Bolivar" (From Kenton Cornish)

bolivar-exhibit_510 by bucklesw1
bolivar-exhibit_510, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Here is a link to a rare photograph of the mounted hide and skeleton
of Adam Forepaugh's Bolivar taken when it was on display at the
Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia sometime around 1910.
Bolivar died at the Philadelpha Zoological Gardens July-31-1908.
The mounted hide was taken off of exhibit in 1919,and the skeleton later disassembled
and put into storage(although one of its articulated feet was put back on display a few years ago for a time).


http://www.ansp.org/200/stories/phillys-un-friendliest-celebrity

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