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Kolmården Zoo, Historical Postcard

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A postcard in a series of 5, I bought on Ebay in January 2010. This card shows the famous Savanna with asian elephants, white rhino , zebras, antiolpe , Tapir, birds and cattles. This enclosure was built 1965. In the backround you see the Gibbon house. Some one how knews when it was build? I am not sure about when the photo is taken, 1967? 1970?
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A postcard in a series of 5, I bought on Ebay in January 2010. This card shows the famous Savanna with asian elephants, white rhino , zebras, antiolpe , Tapir, birds and cattles. This enclosure was built 1965. In the backround you see the Gibbon house. Some one how knews when it was build? I am not sure about when the photo is taken, 1967? 1970?
 
Dan
Very nice set of postcards! I did not know/remember that Kolmården, just like Borås, mixed elephants and rhinos once upon a time....

.... though Asian elephants and tapirs together with zebra etc, hmmm.....

Strange mix!
 
Kwambeze
But this strange mix worked out well. I can just add, that in this enclosure , the famous white tapir from Southamerica lived untill it died. This wíhte tapir was bought to Sweden by the swedish photographer Jan Lindblad. He find it nearly dead as a baby in the Rainforest.
 
Maguari
I would have LOVED to have seen this. It looks brilliant.

If you're gonna mix animals from different areas - do it properly! :D
 
Dan
rillekolmard said:
This wíhte tapir was bought to Sweden by the swedish photographer Jan Lindblad. He find it nearly dead as a baby in the Rainforest.
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Really? That´s interesting!

To non-Swedes: Jan Lindblad was a legendary wildlife photographer and filmmaker here in Sweden. He was a very fragile man, ridden with illness, who died pretty young but still managed to climb the highest mountains and go deepest into the rainforests to make incredible documentaries.

His greatest achivement probably was when he and his wife raised a litter of tiger cubs from some Swedish Zoo (Kolmården?... the cubs possibly rejected by their mother?) on an island in the Stockholm archipelago, taught them to hunt and eventually (and successfully) set them free in the wild. Probably in India if I remember correctly. This happened in the late 1970s.

Come to think of it, I may have mentioned this story before here at ZooChat. Oh well... never mind. :)
 
Kwambeze
SMR: Sorry, I was going to write when the tapir died , but suddenly i just dont remember wich years it was... :rolleyes:

Dan , if you are interested in the white tapir, and other animals Jan Lindblad has feed from it was a baby, you can borrow many books in the library: "Den Vita Tapiren" "Tigrarna , vårt största äventyr" or some book from his travels around the world. You can also find a video on YOUTUBE with Jan , when he is visiting the famous Swedish TV-SHOW "Hylands Hörna". ( [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBOt0Jao7Yk"]YouTube- Jan Lindblad bird imitation Hyland (1970)[/ame] )
 
nicholas
Dan said:
Really? That´s interesting!

To non-Swedes: Jan Lindblad was a legendary wildlife photographer and filmmaker here in Sweden. He was a very fragile man, ridden with illness, who died pretty young but still managed to climb the highest mountains and go deepest into the rainforests to make incredible documentaries.

His greatest achivement probably was when he and his wife raised a litter of tiger cubs from some Swedish Zoo (Kolmården?... the cubs possibly rejected by their mother?) on an island in the Stockholm archipelago, taught them to hunt and eventually (and successfully) set them free in the wild. Probably in India if I remember correctly. This happened in the late 1970s.

Come to think of it, I may have mentioned this story before here at ZooChat. Oh well... never mind. :)
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The tigers never went to the wild. They lived out their days at Borås Zoo.

Also, the albino tapir wasn't found in the rainforest, but bought from an animal dealer.
 

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