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The 150 Year Jubilee Exhibition...

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... is held in the indoor enclosures of the old elephant´s house. Very interesting if you are some kind of a zoo buff, but apparently not so to others, judging by the comments that I overheard.

Mostly a photo exibition with written comments, some films are also showed.

Not wanting to pick another fight with Toddy, but you must admit that some of the pictures are - let´s call it - "difficult" to watch. I know that there is of course probably copyright applied to these pictures, but I´ll be damned if I won´t show The zoochatters one of them. (Feel free to delete it, moderators!). But I "took a picture of one of the pictures" and it shows hyenas and wolfes stacked onto each other in scenes that resemble the scenes of the Asian dog trade.

I actually have a very slight memory of something like this, when I visited the zoo for the first time in the beginning of the 1960s. But then it was not dog species (I am pretty sure), it was some other species kept in extremely low ceiling´d cages on top of each other. I only remember the cages, not the species. Still a memory that has actually haunted me until this day.
... is held in the indoor enclosures of the old elephant´s house. Very interesting if you are some kind of a zoo buff, but apparently not so to others, judging by the comments that I overheard.

Mostly a photo exibition with written comments, some films are also showed.

Not wanting to pick another fight with Toddy, but you must admit that some of the pictures are - let´s call it - "difficult" to watch. I know that there is of course probably copyright applied to these pictures, but I´ll be damned if I won´t show The zoochatters one of them. (Feel free to delete it, moderators!). But I "took a picture of one of the pictures" and it shows hyenas and wolfes stacked onto each other in scenes that resemble the scenes of the Asian dog trade.

I actually have a very slight memory of something like this, when I visited the zoo for the first time in the beginning of the 1960s. But then it was not dog species (I am pretty sure), it was some other species kept in extremely low ceiling´d cages on top of each other. I only remember the cages, not the species. Still a memory that has actually haunted me until this day.
 
This was the house for small mammals and you can see it on a historical movie from Copenhagen Zoo (Zoo-tv), behind the Sunbears, which was called dancing bears and said everything about the time. No biological approach only amusement (?). The house was demolished as late as 1969. It was even worse than the big cats house which you can see on some other scenes on the 15 min movie.
 
Thanks Benzoo!

I had a hunch it might be "The Small Mammal´s House"! It is actually not a name that has stayed with me over the years, only a name I have discovered during the jubilee year. Lots of historical maps all over premises, you know, and I take long looks at them whenever I visit the zoo.

But your explanation makes perfect sense from my personal point of view. I visited the zoo two or three times in the 1960s but the next visit occurred only in the late 1970s.

BTW, I have been meaning to e-mail the zoo and ask them to publish these maps on the web-site. Would be of great historical and cultural interest!
 
Hi Dan
There might be a few historical maps in the elephant house exhibition you can refer to.
 
Only a couple, If I remember correctly. But I would love to see a series of maps published on the web site so that I could sit in piece and quite by my computer, studying them and ponder over the zoo´s development over the decades....
 

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