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Bushman. Marlin Perkins' collection at Lincoln Park is good, if not dazzling. Among its 2,800 specimens are several star performers. One of them is Heinie, a male chimp who does a terrifying stomp to get an audience's notice and then spits ponderously at the nearest face. Other headliners are Dillinger, an 18-year-old lion whose savagery has never been tempered, and Judy, a 39-year-old elephant, who loves cough drops...
...Lincoln Park's star of stars is a gorilla named Bushman. Recently, the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums proclaimed Bushman "the most outstanding and most valuable single animal of its kind in any zoo in the world." Worth about $100,000, Bushman is a magnificent, 520-lb. anthropoid, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, with an arm spread of nearly twelve feet. At 19, he is in his black prime...
Born in the bush of French West Africa, Bushman was captured in babyhood. He got to Lincoln Park in 1930, weighing 38 Ibs. Almost every morning for 4½ years, Keeper Eddie Robinson hitched Bushman to a 75-ft. rope and took him out for a romp on the monkey-house lawn. Man and beast wrestled, ran races, played football. Bushman learned how to heave a neat underhand pass, run with the ball, dodge tacklers. He was always gentle and obedient...
...three years at Lincoln Park, Perkins has already done an impressive job of brightening up and modernizing. To start with, he rewrote almost every label in the place so that visitors could get at least a faint bit of information about his animals. He set up a Zooanswer Shop, where people could have their curiosity about animals satisfied. (No. 1 question: "What is the gestation period of an elephant?" Answer: 19 to 21 months.) He repainted cages. He opened a Zoorookery (a cageless exhibit of scores of pinioned birds). And he enlarged the reptile exhibit...
...ideas to make zoogoing even more fun and more instructive. One small dream involves a sort of slot machine, called the "Chimpomat," which would demonstrate the learning capacity of chimps by automatically rewarding them for tricks well done. Another idea is for a great new reptile house for Lincoln Park. In it, he would like to have the best snake collection in the world. Then, he would like to use his old reptile house to present a complete natural history of animals. Says he: "Everything in the animal kingdom stems from water, and if you could show the relation between...