US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. At the California Zoological Gardens Duke, a 600-pound Bengal tiger, attacked June, an adult mountain lion, dislocating her vertebra and elbow. The tiger tore through the wire netting between the two cages that separated them. June is reported as healing but very temperamental from the incident. Duke was successfully sedated. From behind the bars of his cage Duke stands on his hind legs and snarls. Similar photograph appears with the article, "Tiger Does Man Mountain Act With Lioness in Cage," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep 1936: 10. Text from negative sleeve: 6647 - Duke (a Tiger) W.J. Richards (Calif. Zoological Society) June (a Puma) (Calif. Zoological Gardens) Zoo Animals Fite 9/19/36 [stamped:] Sep 24 1936 Handwritten on negative: Duke 9/19/36
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14563 ark:/21198/zz002j85qk
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Animal attacks--California--Los Angeles Cages--California--Los Angeles Tigers--California California Zoological Gardens
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