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JULY/AUGUST 1984 New Zoo land preparation becomes visible By Roy Levin, Project Director

In early May, Governor Robert Orr will be planned in detail, and features areas of the zoo will have rock and Mayor William Hudnut turned such as landscaping, traffic patterns, features; the amount and locations the first shovelsful of ground for the and food services will be identified are now being studied. The designers' rerouting of West Washington Street and developed into a workable plan. challenge is to achieve economical, and the construction of a new bridge In many cases, working models will aesthetically-pleasing exhibits that over . Thus began a giant assist the designers in evaluating provide animal comfort as well as step toward the development of space requirements and their natural settings for viewing. and the New relationships with animals and Other consultants are advising us Zoo. visitors. Attention will be given to the on the amounts and depths of water The new highway and bridge are animal keepers and their needs in needed for sea , sharks, polar necessary ingredients in making the caring for their charges. Visitor needs bears, etc. Consideration must be site available for the zoo. This first for food and snack services, rest given to the treatment of these major piece of construction will be areas, souvenir and gift interests will waters — filtration, salt content, located approximately two blocks be factored into the final design. temperature. We also must consider south of the present thoroughfare Consultants now are researching both winter and summer operations. and is expected to be completed by tree and shrub species which are Input from all these studies and August, 1985. The project is under hardy to 's climate while consultant advice will be tied together the direction of the State Highway providing a suitable variety to help in this next design phase. We'll keep Department. depict the various biomes. Many our members posted on the progress. The existing bridge will remain for pedestrian use and will become part of the entrance to the zoo from the downtown area. Noontime visitors will be able to walk to the zoo's entrance plaza to eat lunch while they enjoy the sea exhibit. The relocation of the Metro bus garages is another major construction project now underway. The present facilities are located on Washington Street just west of White River and are easily identified by the large semi­ circular garage roofs. Demolition has begun in preparation for the new facilities, to be located on the southwest corner of Washington and Harding Streets. This relocation is another vital step in preparing the site for our new zoo, as the exciting waters biome will be located there. Meanwhile, the New Zoo design This working model of the New Zoo entrance and waters area features the exhibit in the center of the circle. Sharks, penguins, and polar bears will be included in this team has finished the schematic portion of the zoo. design phase of their work. James Associates Architects and Geupel For members only DeMars, construction managers, On the Cover: John Mitchell, have been evaluating the various Plans are now being made for the Indianapolis, won second place, features and presenting alternatives Indianapolis Zoo's annual Members color division, with a photo of the and costs so that decisions can be Appreciation Night, to be held Zoo's Siberian tiger in last year's made as to what features should be Saturday, September 1, from 5 to 8 Photo Safari Contest. The 1984 included. During the next design p.m. Back by popular demand will be competition continues through phase, which will take approximately Jug Eckart and his Zoopendous Labor Day. For further details, six months, the details of each animal chicken dinner! phone the Zoo's Public Relations exhibit will be defined. Building Mark your calendars and look for Department. structures and internal layouts also additional details in the mail! Zoosletter—2 Siberian tiger odyssey we had received Astra (Russian for the flower, aster). Of the three tigers, From Moscow to Indy Astra's personality, in the words of By Julian J. Duval, Curator Dr. Seal, was certainly much more Nearly a year ago, on August 23, a to Indianapolis and Omaha, but zoo "responsive" than that of her brother two-year-old female Siberian tiger personnel couldn't honestly and sister. So responsive was her arrived in Indianapolis from the remember which female we would personality, in fact, that we had to Moscow Zoo. Her brother and sister receive. They did indicate, however, remind ourselves she wasn't down were imported at the same time and that the name would be written on right nasty. Astra took quite well to took up residence at the Henry the shipping crate. Satisfied, I figured the other residents in the cat Doorly Zoo, Omaha, and the Bronx it would add a little drama to the building, but her reaction to human Zoo, respectively. Their arrival in the arrival. Naturally, as the cameras beings was quite another story. US was the result of years of work in turned and the mikes were shoved At first, our approach was to dealing with a myriad of government toward me, there was no name to be provide her as much privacy as agencies. While presently there is no found on the crate... or anywhere possible and to limit the number of shortage of Siberian tigers in US among the paperwork! A forgiving persons with access to her quarters. , the three from Moscow press gave us front page coverage All the while, the media wanted to represented a needed new blood line the next day and told of our know when she would go on view. It critical to saving the species, which marvelous feats, even if we didn't was a question we could not answer may be extinct in the wild by the year know our lady's name! since we didn't know how long it 2000. (See Zoosletter July/August 1983) As it turned out, the media in New would be before we could trust her The importation of the tigers York and Omaha had a good deal not to injure herself or frighten received significant media attention. more to report. The male tiger which visitors at the exhibit yard. A "Smithsonian World" film crew was supposed to stay in the Bronx accompanied Dr. U.S. Seal, species ended up in Omaha, leaving Omaha's After several months passed and coordinator to the Siberian Tiger female at the Bronx Zoo. The actual very little improvement was seen, we Species Survival Plan, to Moscow to disposition of the three had little began to question the methods used cover the transportation process. The importance to the importation, as all to settle Astra down. Her contact program, entitled "Crossing the our tigers are managed collectively as with our keepers took place only as Distance," was televised last spring one population. Eventually Omaha they were cleaning the premises or and will be repeated at 7 p.m. and the Bronx were to switch tigers shifting other cats, activities which Monday, July 2 on Channel 20. for different pairings anyway. But due Astra might determine as aggressive. Newspapers and television also to the mixup, the Henry Doorly Zoo She had had no chance to see any showed a great deal of interest in the had front page coverage for three human in a relaxed state. We altered event. In Indianapolis, we held a news consecutive days. Zoo Director Dr. our approach and initiated our conference at the airport prior to our Lee Simmons said it was the best "Lunch with Astra" program. publicity his zoo had ever had! tiger's arrival — really big time! My Each day one of our keepers would phone started ringing early that Locally, media interest in our tiger spend at least 30 minutes eating morning with calls from the media continued, even after we determined Continued on page 4 and invariably the first question asked was whether our tiger had a name. As knowing the tiger's name was not important to travel preparations and safe housekeeping, I had not taken time to research the question. Eventually I was called by a UPI reporter in New York who had access to a news release issued in Russia announcing the names as Elisa and Astra for the females and Tulipan for the male. While it didn't make any difference to us, I surmised I'd better try to determine which female we were about to receive so as not to appear too foolish before the reporters at the airport. From the Bronx Zoo came word that the two Curator Duval scans the shipping crate for a clue to identity upon the Siberian tiger's arrival at females had been sent on their flights Indianapolis International Airport last August. Zoosletter—3 Tiger Make your visit lunch in front of Astra's enclosure. It waiters served an impecable repast, a learning experience wasn't too long before we noted despite the logistical problems of By Judi Reames, Early Childhood Specialist some improvement. As things working in a narrow runway "Hey, look," said the preschooler, progressed, we invited other zoo staff surrounded by three very large cats. pointing to the Emu. "What's that?" into the program and eventually One waiter, to avoid stepping too Responded the parent, "I don't know. "invited" more than one person at a near Astra's cage, repeatedly Look at the kangaroo." "But Mom, time for a meal. committed the cardinal serving sin of the youngster persisted, "What's that reaching across one diner to serve The media got another chance to big black thing" "I don't know," said another. 'I'm sorry, but I want to live cover the Astra story when our Mom. "Look! The kangaroo has a to see my unborn child,' he joked." Public Relations Department baby!" "But, Dad... look! what is Special guest at the elegant luncheon arranged "Lunch with Astra" with a rhaf?" "I don't know, said the father. was Dr. Frances Brown, who very special twist. Instead of brown "Let's go see the elephant." bags or fast food, lunch was an $80-a- provided funds for Astra's Does the above sound like an plate affair prepared by chefs Antonio transportation to Indianapolis. excerpt from your last Zoo visit? If Pologruto and Andrew Hamilton of Our very special "Lunch with Astra" so, moving on to the next exhibit the Hyatt Regency-Indianapolis. proved to be a superb media event may not be the answer. (What if you Guests dined on such fine Russian and gave us the opportunity to test don't know what a wallaby is either?) fare as coulibiac — a dough baked her in front of a varied group. She with salmon and dill seasoning; salad The next time your preschooler did very well, indeed, and eventually asks "What's that?," practice a little a la Astra; chicken cutlet piojarski dozed off during the lengthy meal! with souce smitane; and paschka, a self-disco very by answering, "I don't traditional Russian dessert made from Since then, we have begun to know. Let's find out together!" Here are some tips to get you started. dry-cured cottage cheese. As Dave familiarize Astra with her exhibit Remondini of The Indianapolis Star yard. It's taken a long time, but we Let your child set the pace for your reported, "With only a few minor feel she is finally ready to meet the walk through the Zoo. hitches, the Hyatt's tuxedo-clad public. Look for her this summer! Remember...a quality, concentrated experience at a few exhibits is more meaningful to your preschooler than Colorful Zoo poster available a quick walk past each animal. Jungle Out There!" comes across in While viewing an animal, concentrate bold lettering at the bottom. The on those aspects that are observable: poster measures 22" x 28" and makes size, color, movement, sound, body a handsome addition to home or parts, body covering, etc. Names aren't office. that important! Whenever possible, encourage The limited edition poster sells for multi-sensory exploration: seeing, $5.25 including tax, unsigned, and hearing, smelling, touching. $13.13 including tax, signed. Posters are available at the Zoo, the Encourage language development. Indianapolis City Center, and the Let your child do that talking. Say, Great Frame Up Shops. Mail orders "Tell me about that animal." are also available for a $2.00 charge Ask questions that reinforce skills for handling and postage. for later learning: auditory/visual dis­ To order by mail, please complete crimination, number concepts, spatial the following order form and mail, relationships, classification, etc. In the ITS A JUNGLE OUT THERE! with check, to Zoo Poster, Aviary, for example, the following ques­ Indianapolis Zoo, 3120 East 30th tions might be effective: Do all the birds Order zoo posters for you and your friends! look the same? How are they alike? All proceeds go into 1984 operating fund. Street, Indianapolis, IN 46218. How are they different? Continue by The first-ever, four-color asking, "Can you find a bird that is up Indianapolis zoo poster made a Please forward posters at $_ high? Can you find a bird that is down successful debut at our 20th birthday each plus $2.00 handling fee. A check, made low? Is there a bird under the bush? Is celebration in April. payable to the Indianapolis Zoo, is enclosed in there a bird in the water? Can you find a Artist Holly Toenges Gentile's the amount of $ bird that is black and white? Can you creation features a beautiful Siberian Name find another that looks just like this one? tiger peering from colorful dense Address foliage. The spirited message, "It's A City, State, Zip Continued on next page Zoosletter—4 Visit. volunteers helped plan and then created the various activities. They Encourage your child to close his Mouth? Arms? Legs? How many of also staffed the room every day eyes, then ask how many different each? during April and May. bird sounds he can hear. Can your Animal locomotion is the Discovery child make some of those sounds? Have your children study what the Room topic. At each of five stations Suggest to youngsters that they look birds are eating and how they are there is a graphic to show how a for bird nests and bird houses. If you eating. particular animal moves and an were that bird, which house would A visit to the Zoo with your pre­ activity for the student to try the you choose?, might be an appropriate schooler can be more than an same movement. As a rabbit jumps, question. isolated event full of unanswered his front legs land first, then the back Observe bird movement and ask questions. Effective parent/child legs come down forward of the front your children if they can move some interaction (even if you don't know ones. We have a row of rabbit tracks of those same ways. Observation can what an Emu is!) can make your visit so the students can try this also be sharpened if you ask, Does a worthwhile, stimulating experience movement. There is also a rabbit the bird have eyes? Ears? Nose? for all...parents as well as available for observation. preschoolers! Youngsters can also learn to walk like a turtle and to try walking with a An educational "discovery" "shell" on their backs. They can also By Laurie Christie, School Programs Specialist touch the real thing to see just how a shell feels. Most people think that birds flap their wings straignt up and down. Actually, they move their wings in a figure 8 pattern. In the Discovery Room, students learn to move like a bird by tracing the figure 8 pattern with their fingers. Without using arms or legs, students also try to move through a snake tunnel. A live snake can be touched to see how strong their muscles are. Brachiatrion is a form of locomotion that most children are very good at but few have heard about. It's the hand over hand movement used by gibbons to move After slithering like a snake, this young zoo visitor meets the real thing! Docent Doris Maeda is through trees. Students explore this present to explain the world from a snake's perspective. movement on a monkey bar set. The best part of the Discovery In presenting quality programs the lack of time to answer questions were Room is watching students have fun Zoo's Education staff continually always problems. as they are learning. The looks for ways to respond to the concentration seen on faces as Many zoos and museums have run public's needs. One recent change youngsters slither through the snake Discovery Rooms for students which was made in our spring school tunnel shows the program is allow children to explore topics for programs. succeeding. They are often heard to themselves. To determine if such a comment afterwards that it's both fun Some 30,000 school children visit program was feasible at the and hard to be a snake! the Zoo each spring and Indianapolis Zoo, we ran a prototype approximately 30 percent of them for two days last September. After One Docent met a child who had receive an educational program. In carefully assessing the program participated in the Discovery Room the past, this program has always evaluations, we decided to plan a several week earlier. The girl been a lecture on an animal topic Discovery Room for this spring. immediately began to describe the using live animals to illustrate the various activities she had tried. She talk. The need for students to sit During the winter, we held had crawled through the snake tunnel quietly, listening and behaving as if meetings with the Docent Council to and said she could move her arms they were in a classroom, and the design the program. These education Continued on page 6 Zoosletter—5 Discovery Schmedly— The Zoo's ugly duckling! By "Snapper" McGauley, Public Service Department like a bird. She proceeded to demonstrate the figure 8 movement, playfully after shoestrings or pant to the delight of the Docent. Such a legs, with his head extended toward response makes the whole project the ground much as a bloodhound worthwhile. giving chase to a scent. When he'd We're pleased to announce that catch his target, he would tug on it as the Discovery Room will be in place a puppy in play. And though he in the Education Center through would never bite hard enough to September. While we can't keep draw blood, to many observers his animals in the room each day, all irreverant appearance only suggested visitors will have an opportunity to bloody ferociousness. explore animal locomotion every day Stories of the duck's exploits this summer. So, come out and see if proliferated through the years. People you can jump, walk, fly, crawl and would dote on the unattractive "Schmedly" brachiate like the animals! Muscovy who loved the attention of In late 1980, it was put in an empty visitors. With mild bribes of popcorn, box and donated to the Indianapolis he would almost always allow himself Bonus for givers Zoo. From three feet away it was the to be physically handled by curious ugliest bird Russell Williams, children. If you are among the majority of birdhouse keeper had ever seen. And American taxpayers who use the yet it stood so decidedly cocky! During his first "Christmas at the Zoo," Schmedly's playful antics were "short" income tax form, your Russell studied it. Above a low but misinterpreted by one family, who, charitable gift is now deductible, too! patriotic chest, its head moved back believing they were under attack, fled Congress has passed a law which and forth with an abrupt shake. It to safety up the ladder leading to the permits you to deduct 25 percent of looked as if it were either trying to barn's hayloft. your first $300 of charitable clear itself of some recurring contributions in 1984, for a total dementia or swaying to the lyrics of a A zoo volunteer arrived one maximum deduction of $75. This is song. Saturday morning and went to visit Cocoa, the camel. All of a sudden, applicable even if you use the short Russell knew through years of the normally-reserved volunteer was form and do not itemize. experience that nothing would help observed shrieking and running from Your increased financial support is the bird's appearance, because it was the barn, over the bridge, past the especially important at a time when a one-hundred percent, bona-fide, parrots and pygmy goats, all the way the Indianapolis Zoo is stretching its American male Muscovy duck! That to the concession patio, where she resources and reaching higher and fact alone gave it the dubious jumped upon a table. After being farther than ever before. We thank distinction of being one of the world's shooed away by a keeper, Schmedly you all for your generosity! ugliest birds. waddled away slowly, defiantly, cocky Staring at the critter standing so to be sure, with his large chest stuck undeservedly cocky in the box, out and his head and tail both Russell thought of a scruffy, wise­ swinging rhythmically. He acted cracking, equally cocky cartoon disgracefully haughty, as if to say, character named Cap'n Schmedly, "I'm Cap'n Schmedly, WWI flying World War I flying duck ace! duck ace! And so it was that the zoo's ugliest Male Moscovies are generally duck had been given both a name noted for being prolific breeders, and and a home. they will mate with most female It was at his new home, the ducks, Muscovy or not. Not Hoosier Barn, that a great many Schmedly. As outgoing as he is, he unusual events began to happen to became indifferent and incommuni­ Schmedly. Some stories are legend. cative on one occasion. That was All probably involve his alter ego — when Sylvia, a female Muscovy, was Cap'n Schmedly, World War I flying introduced to him. After being slight­ duck ace! ed for several weeks, Sylvia was Shortly after he settled into his new returned to her owner and Schmedly Keepers Susan Gordon and Lynne Villers measure canines during the annual Baboon residence, Schmedly's personality continued his celibacy in content­ processing. began to emerge. He would chase ment. Continued on page 8 Zoosletter—6 How to give a donation to Indianapolis Zoological Society, Inc. and save money doing it.

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Zoosletter—7 Vol. 24, No. 4 (317)547-3577 Indianapolis Zoological Society, Inc. Accredited by American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums New Zoo members Board of Directors Contributing - $100.00 William R. Adams Paul L. Blankenship Sue Ellen Braulin Dr. Mel Perelman, Chairman of the Board Jack R. Lee, President John & Ann Barber Rabbi & Mrs. Jon Adland David & Beth Bomberger Nelleke A. Bruyn Larry A. Conrad, Vice President Mrs. Rod Davis Mr. & Mrs. Carl W. Agnew Elizabeth L. Borodach Mrs. K. B. Campbell James D. Keckley, Vice President Mr. & Mrs. Otto N. Frenzel Mr. & Mrs. K. R. Aguirre J. A. Bose H. R. Caniff, Jr. Mary O. Carroll Martha D. Lamkin, Vice President Mrs. Flinn H. Moses James E. Aikman Catherine A. Boyd Susan G. Brandt Diane Casey John T. Neighbours, .Vice President James R. Nickels Mr. & Mrs. T. Aksamit Mr. & Mrs. D. T. Braun Margaret Cassidy Kathryn G. Betley, Secretary Donald Schini Sara K. Allen Patricia Bretzmann Sara Compton Dr. Robert B. Hirschman, Asst. Secretary Fred Simon Mr. & Mrs. Bob Allison Philip A. Amato Lynn E. Bringle Sondra Cripe Ronald Hicks, Treasurer Supporting - $50.00 Elizabeth Dill Maxine Amigh Mr. & Mrs. Wilgus Broffitt Mrs. Alex M. Clark Mary R. Early A.F. Cohn Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Andersen Mrs. F. A. Brown Allen L. Durnil Suzanne Edelen Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. H. Dale Brown James Eibel Debra Edwards Charles R. Ellis Marie H. Anderson Robert & Ruth Brown Lewis A. Enkema Josephine K. Edwards Mr. & Mrs. Marcus Feinberg Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Anderson Sherri L. Brown William C Griffith Jr. Dave Epler Emily Hernandez Mrs. H. D. Andrews Mrs. Arthur Brunner John Hodowal Robert Evans Randolph W. Hurst Mrs. D. L. Angelicchio Gerald & Janice Buddenbaum Robert K. Levin Jean C. Farwell Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Kefer Dr. & Mrs. John W. Arbuckle Marshall Lee Campbell Mrs. Robert C McDonald Marcella M. Fitzhugh Mrs. Allan C. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Peter Arfken Edna F. Carroll Dr. Emery P. Miller Mrs. Franklin Flee Steve & Cathy Plump David L. Armstrong William O. Cass Thomas M. Miller William Lee Gibbs Max D. Rynearson Mr. & Mrs. Ned Arthur Arthur W. Chalmers Thomas W. Moses W. P. GoodmanJII Dr. & Mrs. Richard Schumacher Aaron & Stephanie Ashley Kathe Champion Julian D. Pace II Donald Gorman, III Carol A. Stoops Mr. & Mrs. Amos E. Atwood Robert M. Chapman Dean H. Phillips Mrs. R. J. Hebenstreit Linda L. Stropes Frances Bailey Mr. & Mrs. Don Childers Rudy S.P. Reyes Peggy Herrmann Eugenie T. Sullivan Mrs. Robert Bailey J. E. Clark James M. Rogers Terrence A. Hillman Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Clement Mrs. Pauline Selby Sustaining — $35.00 Mrs. H. M. Hosey Dr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Ball James. M. Clinger Mrs. Herbert Simon Madeline Hurley Wilbert Colwell Earle C. Barber Mark & Nancy Clinton F. Arthur Strong Christine Johnson William H. Davis, Jr. Mrs. M. C. Barnard Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Coats Donald W. Tanselle Blanche Keating Dr. & Mrs. W. Hugh Headlee Mr. & Mrs. Steven E. Barr Mr. & Mrs. William Cohen Mrs. Dorothy L. White Jack R. Leer H. W. Kothe, Jr. Diane & Lawrence Bartlett Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Comerford Mrs. Donald E. Wood George N. Lewis A. Blake Beldon Margaret F. Leich Mr. & Mrs. Brian Mooney Katherine Bender Single - $15.00 Jeannette LeSaulnier Directors Emerti Mr. & Mrs. Robert Plawecki Mr. & Mrs. William G. Bentley Sue Lindeman Lowell B. Nussbaum Frank D. Abott E. G, Lindsey Susan L. Strain Schroeder Berger Russell R. Hirschman Aaron D. Allee Donald Litzelman Family - $25.00 Mr. & Mrs. Ricky Berkey Gwen Allen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Bingham Gary M. Long Zoo Guild Representative Kristi Abbott Angle Angelopolous Mrs. J. F. Madden Mrs. Glenn A. Pritchard Jr. C. T. Bitler Margaret Belden Mr. & Mrs. John E. Absaloms Mrs. Lowell A. Black Mary M. Malatesta Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Adams Carolyn Blitz Elaine J. McFadden Executive Staff Eleanor L. Blakey Carol Boiler Roy A. Shea, Director Richard G. France, Operations Schmedly. Director Roy C Levin, New Zoo Project Famous for being peculiar at the Zoo, Schmedly has also laid claim to fame in the Director Robert H. Butters, Business Manager entertainment world. Each Christmas, he co-stars in "A Christmas Carol," performed Julian J. Duval, General Curator at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. Schmedly plays the impeccable role of Bob Christine C Ketchum, Director of Development Cratchit's Christmas goose. His reviews are scant, but complimentary. Shirley A. Boltz, Public Relations Director/Zoosletter Editor Back at the Hoosier Barn, zoo patrons express delight at this overly friendly male Paul B. Grayson, Curator of Moscovy. He really isn't ferocious, but he is a real character. Charisma? Who knows. Education Keith G. Schnell, Maintenance But at least we all admit, he's peculiar and interesting! Supervisor

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