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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: By the Lake | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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