GBH Openvault
Walsh's Animals; Zoo Constant, The
Part of The GBH Animals Collection.
License Clip
More material may be available from this program at the GBH Archives. If you would like research access to the collection at GBH, please email archive_requests@wgbh.org.
- Series
- Walsh's Animals
- Program
- Zoo Constant, The
- Series Description
An animal show for grown-ups as well as kids. For the last ten years, first with the Massachusetts SPCA and since then with the London-based International Society for the Protection of Animals (whose American office he then headed), John Walsh has been point man in the effort to control the natural and man caused horrors menacing the planet's wildlife. Every week on "Walsh's Animals" deals with both domestic and wild animals, in an effort to provide people with information to help save endangered wildlife and to correct domestic abuses. Footage of the ways animals live in the wild combined with tips on animal care are a regular feature of each show. See October 1973 Prime Time for cover story. Series release date: 10/1/1973.
- Program Description
There will always be zoos--man will always keep animals around him, as he has for thousands of years. But the methods of keeping them are beginning to change as people become more and more aware of the special requirements of individual species. There's the Sonora Desert Museum where only animals of the surrounding local region are displayed--a good example of how zoos are changing for the better. And there's the problem of keeping exotic pets yourself. John tells you the specific needs of many animals--from the macaque monkeys to alligators to boa constrictors to coatimundis to ocelots--but who could keep up with the special demands? Only a millionaire. (One segment features John Paul Getty's lions.) John has also investigated abuses in air transportation of exotic pets: and he recommends measures for curtailing the illegal activities in this area.
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Educational
- Topics
- Animals
- Citation
- Chicago: “Walsh's Animals; Zoo Constant, The,” GBH Archives, accessed April 18, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4B063B46BE45421C87410D555A8019F9.
- MLA: “Walsh's Animals; Zoo Constant, The.” GBH Archives. Web. April 18, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4B063B46BE45421C87410D555A8019F9>.
- APA: Walsh's Animals; Zoo Constant, The. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4B063B46BE45421C87410D555A8019F9