A series of unedited field recordings for a 1ZB children's programme, recorded at Auckland Zoo. Consists of commentary, sound effects, short interviews with zoo staff. [Online audio is a compilation of recordings of Jamuna the elephant.]
Side 1.
Lions Victor and Trixie roar while an unidentified male announcer [possibly Bill Young?] introduces Colonel Sawyer [who is not heard]. A group of children say hello.
Dudley [Wrathall] and Mrs Sawyer with Jamuna the elephant, who plays a mouth organ with the end of her trunk.
Male announcer describes the tiger, leopard, puma and jaguar as they are being fed and tries unsuccessfully to get them to make a noise. [Children in the background.] Finally the tigers growl over a piece of meat.
Dudley and Mrs Sawyer with Joey [a bird?] and then with cockatoos and galahs who say 'Hello' and squawk. Mrs Sawyer describes the kookaburra and his laugh and the macaws.
Side 2. Mrs Sawyer tries unsuccessfully to get 'Bill' [the kookaburra?] to laugh.
Dudley briefly records in the elephant house. Describes Jamuna the elephant standing on her hind legs.
Dudley and Mrs Sawyer describe and record the turtle doves and other bird noises.
Unidentified announcer describes the polar bear diving for fish and meat.
Dudley and Mrs Sawyer with a bird which was nursed back to health at the zoo.
Colonel Sawyer describes the spider monkeys. Announcer Ernest Blair, tries to encourage the monkeys to make noises by feeding them.
Colonel Sawyer describes a gloved gibbon swinging in his cage while making noises.
Bill Young and Mr Astor [?] describe a bird [?] hunting fish in a pond.