The Zoo (1949)

here we are at the zoo with so many animals to see it's hard to know just where to begin now let's see suppose we start in right here with the polar bears what a splash that cool water probably feels good to the polar bear for he comes from the far cold North here you go boy here you go here you are Mr Polar Bear here's something for you some sugarcoated popcorn look at him standing up bil oh look who's here would you like some too I guess you'll have to duck into the water after yours but you're used to it in your home way up North you spent a lot of time in ice cold water well polar bears we have to leave you now here are more bears these bears are from Alaska they're called Kodiak bears they're the biggest bears in the zoo in fact this is the biggest kind of bear in the world this fellow weighs as much as eight men he has learned to beg for something to eat this seems to be feeding time with the visitors doing the feeding of course the animals get regular meals too but watching The Big Bear eat is more fun when you give him the food yourself look at his paws with their long sharp claws he could use those Paws and Claws to get food for himself if he had to well it seems to be eating time for the visitors too popcorn lollipops ice cream there's plenty to eat at the zoo now let's take a look at the Lions here are four of them the keeper has food for the Lions big chunks of raw red meat just look at them quarreling over that first bite a lion is a big kind of cat these lions were born in the zoo but their parents came from Africa lions are great hunters like all the other animals of the cat family when they're around other animals do their best to keep out of the way no wonder the lion is called the king of all the beasts and now raw meat for another animal the tiger this tiger came from Asia he smells the raw meat ah good catch now he's watching every move the keeper makes there look at him go after it and now what next well this sign points to the kangaroos let's go see them there goes one of the kangaroos now kangaroos come from Australia these two kangaroos are finding a good meal of fresh grass with grass all around the kangaroos can eat whenever they feel like it a mother kangaroo has a pouch where her baby lives until he's 3 months old this baby kangaroo is old enough to come out when he feels like it here's another baby a baby alpaca just one day old his parents come from the mountains of South America someday the baby will have a long shaggy coat just like his parents now let's see the giraffes my he's tall his long legs and long neck help him to reach high over the fence and nibble leaves from the trees the giraffe's real home is on the plains of Africa the barn for the giraffe has to be very tall this one has just come outside let's see what he's going to do a little sample of greens and then with a hop and a jump he's off for a Gallop around the yard this giraffe is feeling very frisky today even though he lives in a zoo he has plenty of room to run and play zebras and what beautiful striped coats they have you know zebras are cousins to horses they run in big wild herds in Africa where their real home is now what next ah Monkey Island baboons from the jungles of West Africa this must be a baboon family see the baby nearly all kinds of monkeys like fruit especially bananas is this a fight or just a game of jungle tag now let's see what's going on at the seaon pool the keeper has just come with a bucket of fresh fish you know fish are the sea Lion's favorite [Music] food look here comes a big boy he was brought to the Zo from the coast of [Music] California this fellow is hungry too he knows what's in the bucket tail head and all at one big bite look at this the keeper is called a hippo out of the water just so we can see her what tiny ears she knows who her friends are this other hippo is a little afraid of people sometimes roots and sticks get caught in a hippo's mouth and this one's glad to have the keeper pull them out for her look here comes a mother hippo and here comes her baby with her just 2 months old this is the first time today they've come out of the water they like water their real homes are the rivers and lakes of Africa it's getting late but there are one or two other animals we'd like to see before we go the rhinoceros is one of them for short we call them rhinos some people think they're the ugliest animals at the zoo these are hooked lip rhinos from Africa my what thick skin but even with their thick skin they'd hurt each other fighting if the keeper didn't cut the points off their horns did you know that the Rhino and the hippo belong to the same animal family as the elephant a family of thick skinned animals the elephant though is the only one that has a trunk the elephant's trunk is really his long nose well we saved the biggest animal to the last and now it's time to go someday soon we'll come back for another visit to the zoo