Unit 3

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Film highlighting Bronx Zoo animals and exhibits, including hummingbirds, tapirs, gorillas, and penguins. Includes footage from the opening of the Great Apes House and view of the exhibt.

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Film on animal behavior research at the Bronx Zoo. Includes discussions of behavior experiments involving of cock-of-the-rock, toucan, aligator (French horn response), giant tortoises, lions, and elephants.

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2 parts: 1) Children's Day at the Bronx Zoo: Footage of Children's Zoo and events on Baird Court with education animals. 2) Safari to Borneo, Photographed by F. Wayne King: Footage of NYZS Members' trip to Borneo.

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Shows the growth and care of three tigers, born in the Bronx Zoo and raised from infancy by Helen Martini, including in her Bronx apartment.

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Close-up of surgery on parakeets. "Surgery of subcutaneous tumor in parakeets. Techniques employed in the NY Zoological Park. Charles P. Gandal Veterinarian New York Zoological Park. Photographed by Sam Dunton"--Film credits.

Scope and Contents A travelogue featuring New York Aquarium researchers traveling to Mexico to study rare blind fish. "The Blind fishes of La Cueva Chica: the story of a New York Aquarium Expedition. Photographed by Sam Dunton and William Bridges. In 1936 a new kind of blind cavefish was reported in Mexico. Little was known about it aside from the fact that it lived inside a warm water cave. We set out to learn what we could as the natural occurrence of an eyeless condition is always of considerable scientific...

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Macro-photography footage of insects in exhibits and in a research facility. "Under the curatorship of Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars a new comprehensive insect exhibit will be inaugurated at the Bronx Zoo in 1941"--Film credits.

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First film in the NYZS The Living Reptile Series. NYZS educational film shot at the Bronx Zoo and on location in Florida, featuring Turtles, Crocodilians, Beak-Heads, Lizards and Snakes. "Produced in the NY Zoological Park. Under the direction of James A. Oliver Curator of Reptiles. Photographed by Sam Dunton. Directed by William Bridges. Permission to photograph many scenes in the Everglades National Park and Marine Studios at Marineland Florida is gratefully acknowledged"--Film credits.

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"The New York Aquarium is a meeting place for grace and beauty and grotesque form"--Opening titles. Film shows various New York Aquarium exhibits, including the new walrus pool, and research activities at the proposed Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences.

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Year in review film introducing the exhibits and research facilities at the newly relocated New York Aquarium at Coney Island.