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on the southwestern side of the city, hidden amongst the trees and fog. There is a special community. It is a home for over 1300 unique individuals within its confines. There exists the largest melting pot in the Bay Area. And each year, over two million visitors journey

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through this separate world known to many as the San Francisco Zoo. Yeah, yeah, Okay. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mm mm. Tonight, Assignment four presents Xue, A study of life at Flash after. Yeah.

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Uh huh. It is 8 a.m. In two hours. The zoo gardens open to the public. But for the 28 keepers and dozens of other staff personnel, the zoo world is already wide awake. Mhm, right? Yeah, right. Yeah. E

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mhm. Yeah, Yeah. Oh, yeah, right. Do you want this excited? Oh, okay. The zoo's history spans more than four decades. In the late twenties, Herbert Flash Acker donates the initial collection of over 100 wild

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animals representing dozens of different species in the thirties. The Government's WP A program provides the man power necessary to construct a major portion of the zoo's housing through the forties and fifties. Director Kerry Baldwin establishes a new concept in zoo displays, the outdoor moated exhibits. He

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also creates the San Francisco Zoological Society, an organization which gives the public a larger voice and policy for the zoo. The sixties usher in the advent of the Great Ape Grottos, a new home for the giraffes and the Children zoo. Through it all, the staff for

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a small group of dedicated men and women keep the zoo functioning on a daily basis. They maintain a special harmony that enables natural enemies toe live together. Says to me, Yes, right then let's go. Uh, all right about Oh, world, Come on, you won't get a

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The way the animal cages closed the attendants gates open daily Commune of man and animal begins. Okay, fans Line is legitimate, Robert Artery wrote in his book African Genesis. Our ancestry is firmly rooted in the animal world and to its subtle antique ways. Our hearts are

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yet pledged the next murder. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did, you know e o E e ah! Grizzly bear destroys two or four coyotes with whom she shares a

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cage. Horrified Spectators gazed at the scene. Zoos personnel use hoses to separate the surviving contenders thing the scene illustrates the major problems with Flash Acker. Too many animals in too small in area, two little entertainment for both the animals and the audience and too few

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trained staff members to deal with Zoos Needs Way. Ronald Luther, director of the San Francisco Zoo since 1967 lends his aid to the crisis, and eventually the bear retreats to her cage. Way used to be the best and largest in California. Now we're

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third were Perhaps we were fifth or sixth best in the country. Now we're 15th or 16th, and this is only because we sort of stood still. And most of the major cities of our country have improved their zoos tremendously in recent years in need, too. For

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that matter. Thank heavens they are. We, I think, are just now starting to reverse this trend and advance. And this is because of a new awareness on the part of the Recreation Park Commission and our Zoological Society board directors of the needs to improve our zoo

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and the ability Thio raise funds now through the admission fees, which should we feel make a considerable difference in our operation and capital improvement here at the zoo. Three adults. How many youngsters do you have with you under 16? Our admission fee was not about because

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there just wasn't enough money in the city budget to provide for the improvements that are needed here at the zoo. And so the B was established. Thio gain some additional funds, and it felt that it's a equitable manner of gaining funds through the charging of people

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that visit the zoo and use the zoo in effect. Of course, about 70% of our visitors are from out of town, and whereas previously they were coming as our guest. Now they do help support the zoo. This should have about 200 to $225,000 per year over

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the next four years, and these funds will be used for zoo improvements. Only way hope Thio. Take the bars out of our lion house and replace that with glass and improve the appearance of the outside of our old packet and building and the old line Dorados,

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all of which are spacious but are pretty darn stark and sterile on. So we feel that we can make us very attractive not only for the people but for the animals. Most of the zoo's budget is used to maintain the status quo. To obtain additional animals,

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she relies heavily, and private contributors like Mr Mrs Carol Sue way like to visit our friend the zoo, especially the two animals that to consider us their close friends because their world is very small. It just consists of their A phone corral and their housing and

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the keepers and the food and the people they know, so it gives them quite a lift. When we go and visit them, they look forward to it, especially if we've always brought um, little goodies that they've enjoyed since they were small, mhm, mhm. I felt that

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earning money and spending it went hand in hand. I could either earn it harder or earn it and spend it. And if I heard it, I would only enjoy it once that is obtaining it. But when I spend it, I could enjoy it twice, once getting

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it once and spending it. When I buy animals for the zoo, it will make other people happy as well as myself. So actually it's you might say it's a selfish motive because it does make me happy, too. These animals that I gave to the zoo average

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$5 a pair. When the little Children go to the zoo and see how came the animals are and how gentle they are with each other, it helps them to learn that people can be friendly and gentle with each other. To weigh $700 is a lot of

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money by any standard zoo. People say it's enough to keep up the present operations. They count on the new admissions fee to bring them the revenues needed for basic improvements. How they keep pace with other zoos depends largely on how many people continue to visit. Fly

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Shocker in the coming years way. This is the San Diego Zoo. It is the largest zoo in the United States. Basic garden consists of 100 acres spread out over the steep terrain of Balboa Park. Tramways and giant escalators helped make individual

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progress within the zoo and effortless journey, and each year, four million people reverse the mesa and canyons of the park to glimpse the animals, where over 5000 creatures 1200 separate species are represented in San Diego Zoo and almost all of them are exhibited outdoors. Year round

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Zoos Hospital is well equipped and ready for any emergency or routine checkup while the animals frolic and large open air exhibits exotic herbs for their dinner are being grown all around them. San Diego's botanical collection is

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valued at over $2 million and worth more than all of our various wild creatures put together by these standards, San Francisco Zoo is floundering. Her outdoor cages air small and packed so tightly together in some areas that often the only animal one sees is the barbed

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wire where there is no wire, vast spaces of cracked concrete meets the eye, a drab setting for the audience and the animal. We must face that environment every day of its life. Yeah, Yeah. Are you there? Wow. Yeah. All

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right. Yeah. Oh, well, we'll bring it over to the elephant house. Alright? Okay. There you go. San Francisco operates on a budget on Lee. 1/4 is largest San Diego's, weathering a considerably damper climate. She has a long way to go before matching the excellence of her

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Southern counterpart. His staff is at work, though, and the daily accomplishments of Flash Acker are starting to speak for themselves. Mhm e Uh huh. E mhm. There is a storybook land at the zoo now. It was

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finished in late 1968. And in many ways, this fantasy is the most realistic item that fly Shaker Children's Zoo allows for an interaction of man and animal without barriers. Zoo staff is bringing in more animals. And Mawr and Mawr Children of all ages are finding their

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zoo within this corral. Oh, my Mm hmm. Get back. E Yeah, e mhm. Yeah. Okay. Oh, a certain music exists at the zoo, a melody which transcends the seemingly

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chaotic pace of the day's activity. Sometimes it is man sonata to the animals. Sometimes it is a normal rhythm of the keeper to his keep mhm on. At other times, it is the dance of the animals themselves. Way should like to believe, concludes Robert Artery.

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If man in a time of need seeks a deeper knowledge concerning himself, then he must explore those animal horizons from which we have made our quick little march way. E about, um