1. Carl Hagenbeck created the modern zoo with animal enclosures without bars that were closer to their natural habitat.
17 Facts About Carl Hagenbeck
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Carl Hagenbeck founded Germany's most successful privately owned zoo, the Tierpark Carl Hagenbeck, which moved to its present location in Hamburg's Stellingen district in 1907.
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When Carl Hagenbeck was 14, his father gave him some seals and a polar bear.
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Carl Hagenbeck took a more proactive role in the animal trade and his collection of animals grew until he needed large buildings to keep them.
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Carl Hagenbeck left his home in Hamburg to accompany hunters and explorers on trips to jungle regions and snow-clad mountains.
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Carl Hagenbeck captured animals in nearly every continent in the world.
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In 1875, Carl Hagenbeck began to exhibit his animals in all the large cities of Europe as well as in the United States, merging his interests in commercial success, the preservation and "acclimatization" of animals, and bringing the "exotic" to industrializing countries.
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Carl Hagenbeck trained animals for his circuses at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis in 1904.
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Carl Hagenbeck's trained animals performed at amusement parks in New York City's Coney Island before 1914.
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Carl Hagenbeck planned a permanent exhibit where animals could live in surroundings like their natural homes.
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In 1905, Carl Hagenbeck used his skills as an animal collector to capture a thousand camels for the German Empire for use in Africa.
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Carl Hagenbeck described his adventures and his methods of capturing and training animals in his book Beasts and Men, published in 1909.
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Carl Hagenbeck was one of the first Europeans to report living dinosaurs.
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In Beasts and Men Carl Hagenbeck claimed he had received reports of "a huge monster, half elephant, half dragon" inhabiting the interior of Rhodesia.
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Carl Hagenbeck thought the animal was some kind of dinosaur similar to a brontosaurus and unsuccessfully searched for it.
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Carl Hagenbeck's claim made headlines in newspapers around the world and helped launch legends of living dinosaurs.
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Carl Hagenbeck died on 14 April 1913 in Hamburg from a bite by a snake, probably a boomslang.