Unit 4

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...

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Year in review film. "A photographic report on the year's events great and small"--Opening film credits. Includes shots of Great Ape House exterior, opening of the new Aquatic Birds House and interior footage of the exhibit.

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Film illustrating the process of planning for the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest Exhibit. The majority of the footage is of artists' renditions of exhibits and architectural plans. Among staff in the film are John Gwynne, Walter Deichmann, William Conway, Amy Vedder, Lee Ehmke, Annette Berkovits, Sue Chin, and Don Lisowy.

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Travelogue and wildlife survey of northwest Burma. Some shots of local people, elephants, landscapes, and takin, including one takin who is roped and put on a plane in a crate. Film concludes with animal's arrival at the Bronx Zoo. "Takin Country in Northwest Burma. Photographed by Oliver M.B. Milton and Richard D. Estes, Burma Wildlife Survey, 1959"--Film credits.

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"Rockefeller University presents Behavior and ecology of Vervet monkeys in the Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve in Kenya by Thomas T. Struhsaker New York Zoological Society and The Rockefeller University"--Film credits.

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"Photographed by James R. Simon"--Film credits. Footage of bears, including cub, and bison, including calf and herd running.

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Footage of Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium staff, at exhibits, offices, and indoor facilities. William Conway; Lee Crandall; Grace Davall; Charles Gandal; Hernon Dowling; Joe Davis and secretary; John Tee-Van; Gordon Cuyler; Publications, Education, Administrative, Facilities staff; Aage Svend Olsen; and Christopher Coates.

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Shows footage of Faifield Osborn at events at the Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium, Osborn hosting the Shah and Empress of Iran, various exhibits including the Aquatic Birds House and the Red Light exhibits in the Small Mammal House, Osborn at New York Aquarium events, and the construction of Osborn Laboratories of Marine Science.

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"Clownfish. Striped skunk clownfish. clownfish fanning eggs. Clownfish - 1961"--Original can label.