Sunday, March 03, 2019

APES #12


9 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Gomel is the State Circus

of Belarus in Russia

Chic Silber said...


I 1st thought the same Lee

When I enlarged it clearly

it's an animal but could

it be a gorilla

Paul Gutheil said...

Everything about it says BIG Chimp to me! Shades of Tony and Irene Fossett's Erik who got too big to handle in performance.

Roger Smith said...

I wouldn't go near that chimp with a SWAT team.

Chic Silber said...


I'll bet he has a 10 foot wingspan

The biggest badass chimp I ever saw

was Congo on the Beatty Show midway



Chic Silber said...


Was it Lemke that had

the big bad gal Susie

Roger Smith said...

Mickey and Minnie were famed as The Clyde Beatty Chimps, but the only man who could get around them was master trainer Albert Fleet. Buckles has told us Mickey was "the meanest son-of-a-bitch" on any show, who would send folding seats flat-spinning into the bandstand. First of May clowns need to know that chimps hate clown makeup, and will viciously attack them on sight. Veteran clowns warn them to stay well out of sight when the chimps are being moved. Mickey chewed half a hand off Albert Fleet, and there is a newspaper photo of Beatty accompanying him to an ambulance. This guy looks as threatening as Mickey was.

Richard Reynolds said...

This may be in Russia, but the trainer looks to me like Bobby Berosini.

Chic Silber said...


Sorry Richard but he doesn't

look much like Bobby to me