tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811556140606524073.post4636741400639407173..comments2024-03-24T01:57:23.238+08:00Comments on 漁人碼頭的戰爭 - The Battle of Fisherman's Wharf: The Yuanshan Zoo 圓山動物園Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811556140606524073.post-82420271128591573032011-02-09T20:11:02.059+08:002011-02-09T20:11:02.059+08:00Hi Marc,
For some reason, your comment did not ta...Hi Marc,<br /><br />For some reason, your comment did not take.<br /><br />Thank you for the link on Lin Wang, the venerable elephant at Yuanshan Zoo:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Wang<br /><br />That has also cleared up some of my own confusion - over whether there was only one elephant (Malan), not two, at the Zoo until 1952 when Lin Wang joined her. The Chinese version puts the date at 1954, though. So we have another confusion. The picture that I have posted was dated 1948; it must have been a solitary Malan at that time.EyeDochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00406602265159523372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811556140606524073.post-48255398767613039082011-02-09T10:48:05.055+08:002011-02-09T10:48:05.055+08:00匿名 提到...
Hello EyeDoc, someone posted this wiki li...匿名 提到...<br />Hello EyeDoc, someone posted this wiki link anonymously to Michael Turton's site. You probably know these details already, but I'll repost the link here for others interested in the elephant history:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Wang<br /><br />marcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811556140606524073.post-22486230695187765202011-02-03T06:04:51.268+08:002011-02-03T06:04:51.268+08:00Hi Patrick,
I've wondered about that: "t...Hi Patrick,<br /><br />I've wondered about that: "they didn't have anything to feed them with..." I can see the lions might be difficult to maintain but how much can a vegetarian gorilla eat, really. <br /><br />I am not sure if any animals ended up on the dinner plates. It would have been a crime for stealing gov't property, though. <br /><br />I do have a post on eye color:<br />http://eyesee-eyetalk.blogspot.com/2008/01/711-flower-child.html<br /><br />If the eyes changed from blue to hazel, it simply means more melanin was added, a normal development. Neck stretching would have left one eye blue, not both eyes green.EyeDochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00406602265159523372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811556140606524073.post-87680134818183340432011-02-03T04:45:52.648+08:002011-02-03T04:45:52.648+08:00Just an aside. My mother says that both my brother...Just an aside. My mother says that both my brother and I were born with blue eyes, and then they changed to green later. I've always been curious about this. I don't think we had our necks stretched.Patrick Cowsillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12904899672214340947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811556140606524073.post-7713775402276700942011-02-03T04:32:07.607+08:002011-02-03T04:32:07.607+08:00I was just at the zoo yesterday. We didn't go ...I was just at the zoo yesterday. We didn't go inside the historical museum (which is excellent), but if memory serves me, there used to be a fair with rides out front of this zoo.<br /><br />"This majestic looking gorilla was electrocuted in 1945 when the Americans came to bomb Taipei, allegedly to prevent it from escaping from the Zoo and mauling hapless citizens in its path." And because they didn't have anything to feed them with. <br /><br />I've read of Japanese officers eating American POWs during WWII. There are some accounts online of George Bush Sr. just missing the plate (his plane, it seems, was downed near an island of cannibalistic Japanese soldiers). It's not hard to imagine, taking in this sort of mentality, what became of some of these animals. Interesting pics/post here, eyedoc.Patrick Cowsillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12904899672214340947noreply@blogger.com