Saturday, June 01, 2019

APES #9


2 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Caption reads "Susie Girl"

Jim Alexander said...

Susie was brought to the U.S. on the Graf Zeppelin in 1931 and displayed at the Cincinnati Zoo. (The St. Louis Zoo receive a chimpanzee brought on the same flight.) Susie would have a meal with her trainer, Bill Dressman as a popular attraction. She lived until 1947, one of the longest lives for a gorilla of that period.