Subject: Cages--California--Los Angeles / Names: California Zoological Gardens - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: At the California Zoological Gardens, Duke, a 600-pound Bengal tiger, attacked June, an adult mountain lion, dislocating her vertebra and elbow. The tiger tore through the wire netting between the two cages that separated them. June is reported as healing but very temperamental from the incident. Duke was successfully sedated.
Date:: September 24, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: At the California Zoological Gardens Duke, a 600-pound Bengal tiger, attacked June, an adult mountain lion, dislocating her vertebra and elbow. The tiger tore through the wire netting between the two cages that separated them. June is reported as healing but very temperamental from the incident. Duke was successfully sedated.
Date:: September 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Tiger Does Man Mountain Act With Lioness in Cage," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep 1936: 10.
Date:: September 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: At the California Zoological Gardens Duke, a 600-pound Bengal tiger, attacked June, an adult mountain lion, dislocating her vertebra and elbow. The tiger tore through the wire netting between the two cages that separated them. June is reported as healing but very temperamental from the incident. Duke was successfully sedated.
Date:: September 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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