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Zoo Topics, 1938

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104407B

Scope and Contents

A snowy wintertime tour of the animals on exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. "Zoo Topics 1938. Photographed in the New York Zoological Park by Claude Leister. A snowy morning in January. A young hyrax is born in the Small Mammal House. We received a baby giant ant-eater. Their food is the standard ant-eater diet of milk, eggs, and chopped meat. A pair of springboks, the first in many years. We exhibit the rare nyala for the first time. The beavers build a new house. In the hospital 'Mike' the young orang has a bite to eat. Then gets a rub down with a well-known baby oil. 'Johnny Walker' is allowed to go outdoors with 'Tish' his inseparable baboon companion."--Film titles.

Dates

  • 1938

Access Information

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Extent

1 film : Black and White; Silent; Positive Print; Acetate Base; 18 frames per second; Projection Print ; 16mm

4 minutes

275 feet (Media Diameter: 7 inches)

Language of Materials

English

General

Digitized in 2023 under the WCS Archives' Shelby White and Leon Levy Film Initiative.

Repository Details

Part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Repository

Contact:
WCS Library/Archives
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Bronx New York 10460 United States