“Consul the Great” was the top performing ape in vaudeville, so much so that getting back to the original one takes some digging. The original was purchased from Wombwell’s Traveling Menageries in 1893 by John Jennison for Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in Manchester, England. Belle Vue was as much of an amusement park as it […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:20AM on July 7, 2013