Bongos/Rhino #1

Dear Spartaco - - First off the bongo - -I do not believe Cleveland Zoo had a male west African bongo in the late 1950s. They did, however, get a young female named Karen. She was captured in the Aberdare Mountains of Kenya which made her a representative of the East African subspecies or race. Born in April 1958, at the time of her capture she was only about a week or 2 old. She was hand raised there by Alan Root, like so - - According to the 1960 Cleveland Zoo guide she was brought to Cleveland by Root and Col. B. C. Goss. She arrived at the zoo on July 31, 1959. At time she was only the second bongo to have been in an American zoo. Her predecessor, the very first one in America, was female named Doreen, another of the east African subspecies who arrived in the Bronx in 1933 and lived there until 1951. I consider myself lucky to have seen her there in August 1947.