& briefly at Taronga in 1935 too (was shot by same travellers on a BMA world tour on cruise ships), mostly of koalas (its possible the first koala is either wild, albeit so rare in Sydney, or at the Pennant Hills Koala Park Sanctuary, though could be Taronga too if they let they planted the right feeding trees for them in the grounds at the time and let them climb those trees sometimes. The second footage of koalas is at Taronga, and finishes with a monkey that can't work out the species but think it was living in the largest of the monkey pits at the zoo at the time; and was good to see there was a dead tree for them to climb up.
Great finds Steve! It's interesting to see that a lot of exhibit designs for natives in Australian zoos haven't really changed much in the 90 years since this footage was taken.
I think that monkey at the the end of the Taronga video may be a spider monkey.
Oh thanks so much Osedax, appreciate man. Have been really wondering what monkey it might of been for the past week (it's good they had the large wooden pole that extended high up considering those old pits were not the biggest living spaces, although considered among the larger/medium-range exhibits of the era. Yeah so true about the native animals' exhibit designs really havent changed much at all the last 90 years hey (I think around that time the native animals setup at Melbourne and possibly Taronga too was considered a new approach and were trying to display more native animal species starting in that era, just based on glimpsing old annual reports and timeline summaries in some of the history report pdfs).
