Title:
Bear enclosure at San Diego Zoo
Creator:
Eloise Perkins
Subject:
Bear enclosure at San Deigo Zoo
San Diego Zoo--History
Description:
The San Diego Zoo began with the Panama-California Exposition of 1915. During the exposition in Balboa Park many animals
were brought to San Diego and put on display. Dr. Harry Wegeforth and his brother Dr. Paul Wegeforth together with too other
physicians found naturalist Frank Stephens and convinced him to join them in their quest for a Zoological garden. From this
partnership the Zoological Society of San Diego developed. The animals used in the Panama-California Exposition where the
first to be given to the new Zoo and others used in the Exposition, which were owned by a nearby corporation where the first
to be purchased by the newly founded Zoological Society. Bears had a special significance to the zoo as a Kodiak bear named
Caesar was the first animal given into the societies keeping, when a naval ship gave the bear to them after their “mascot”
got too big to stay on their ship. Caesar caused the zoological society no end in trouble by breaking out of cage after cage
until the bear enclosure at the park was built on donated funds to help keep Caesar contained.
Publisher:
Escondido Public Library Pioneer Room
Date:
Undated; circa 1960s
Type:
Image
Format:
8X10 B/W Photograph
Identifier:
CESC_141
993
Coverage:
San Diego (Calif.)
Rights:
Copyrighted
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