Carl Akeley's Fighting African Elephants
ELEFINT. Or, how do you taxidermy an elephant? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thebrainscoop The Brain Scoop is written and hosted by: Emily Graslie Created By: Hank Green Directed,...
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Welcome to Carl Akeley: Part Two, where we're going to be talking about the Fighting Elephants. If you want to learn more about the Four Seasons, click there! In 1905 Marshall Field, the Field Museum's namesake and first major benefactor, funded a trip for Carl and his new wife, Delia, to go to Africa. After seeing Carl's work with P.T. Barnum's elephant, Jumbo, a few years earlier, Field was inspired to have his own pair of humongously over-sized mammals. Even at the beginning of the 20th century the African Elephant was considered to be a threatened species so people going on these expeditions were only permitted 2 elephants per person. That's still a lot of elephants per person. And to be quite honest, Carl kind of blew it. The two elephants...
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Welcome to Carl Akeley: Part Two, where we're going to be talking about the Fighting Elephants. If you want to learn more about the Four Seasons, click there! In 1905 Marshall Field, the Field Museum's namesake and first major benefactor, funded a trip for Carl and his new wife, Delia, to go to Africa. After seeing Carl's work with P.T. Barnum's elephant, Jumbo, a few years earlier, Field was inspired to have his own pair of humongously over-sized mammals. Even at the beginning of the 20th century the African Elephant was considered to be a threatened species so people going on these expeditions were only permitted 2 elephants per person. That's still a lot of elephants per person. And to be quite honest, Carl kind of blew it. The two elephants...
