Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd ...

Mine’s origins are impossible to pin down because pertinent records were destroyed in World War II, but she was either captured wild and shipped from the busy port in Hamburg, Germany, or was born in ...

Ringmaster Crile’s animal act is more elaborate than any Carl Hagenbeck ever cracked a whip over. The animals and their organs illustrate the physiological theory on which Dr. Crile has been ...

The strange and disturbing phenomenon of exhibiting humans in zoos was once considered a European thing, but a boomerang found under topsoil in a Melbourne park contradicts that.

The traveling extravaganza heading for Rochester was the Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus “a circus of novelties, thrills and a whole show of pretty women,” according to the newspaper.

The idea that Africa was potentially home to prehistoric monsters gained steam due to the popularity of works of fiction like Henry Francis’s 1908 book The Last Haunt of the Dinosaur and ...

The Hagenbeck-Wallace Lion’s Bride Tableau Wagon, built in 1905 by the Cincinnati-based Bode Wagon Co. for the Carl Hagenbeck Trained Animal Show.

Hagenbeck’s death from a snakebite and the outbreak of World War I, however, scuttled those plans. Advertisement At Manga-Bell Square, tourists learn that the public space only got its name in 2022.

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THE name of Carl Hagenbeck has attained such world-wide celebrity that a volume from the pen of the great animal-dealer and animal-tamer must surely receive a hearty welcome from the reading-public.