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Large cities continue to proliferate. In the coming decades and centuries, men will not travel to view marvels of engineering, but they will leave the dusty towns in order to behold the last places on earth where God’s creatures are peacefully living. Countries which have preserved such places will be envied by other nations and visited by streams of tourists. There is a difference between wild animals living a natural life and famous buildings. Palaces can be rebuilt if they are destroyed in wartime, but once the wild animals of the Serengeti are exterminated no power on earth can bring them back.
The documentary based on the film won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 1959.
He was the editor-in-chief of (and author of a number of articles in) a massive and monumental encyclopedia of animal life. After publication in Germany in 1968, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia was translated into English and published in 1975 in 13 volumes (covering lower life forms, insects and other invertebrates, fish, amphibia, reptiles, birds and mammals) plus three additional volumes on Ecology, Ethology and Evolution. The 1975 work was issued in both hardback and less expensive paperback editions and became a standard reference work. After Grzimek's death, the volumes on mammals were revised, and republished in both German and then in English. In 2004, the entire encyclopedia was revised and published in a new and expanded edition. All the versions of the encyclopedia are marked by clear and forceful prose, extensive use of illustrations (both drawings and color plates), and a deep love and concern for animal conservation.
Of national importance were his work as co-editor (together with Austrian Nobel-prize winner Konrad Lorenz of the then largest popular magazine on animals and wildlife in German language, Das Tier (German language, i.e. "The Animal") and of a very popular television series on wildlife. He also authored a large number of popular books based on his countless experiences with animals which he raised since his student days, managed as zoo director, and encountered in the wild during many research trips.

Courtesy of Josip Marcan
The German postal system has issued two stamp's honoring the Frankfurt Zoo. The stamp above was issued in 1958 commemorating the zoo's 100th Anniversary and the stamp below, was issued in 2008 commemorating the zoo's 150th Anniversary.
As many of you know, who have been following the blog since it's inception, collecting "zoo" stamps has been a passion of mine since I was about 10 years old. Stamp collecting is an incredible hobby that I tried, to no avail, to interest my children in. What with video games, Transformers, and Star Wars, stamp collecting was up against some tough competition. No way could I convince them that looking for, and saving "pretty little bits of paper" was more exciting then flying an imaginary space ship around the universe blasting monsters from the planet Neutron. 
I have often pondered that the Frankfurt Zoo's Exotarium "tower" looked an awful lot like the zoo tower pictured in the post below in 1878. I am still not sure it is the remnant's of the original or if it is a new one. Does anybody know if it is or isn't? Remarkable if it is, and well worth the trip to the Frankfurt Zoo just to gaze upon it's history. In my humble opinion, a truly remarkable architect is the one who can "redesign" old structures, to make them suitable for animal husbandry today, instead of razing them, and designing a "crystal cathedral" in their place.
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Above in 1878
Above in 1913
Above in 2007
List of events above from 1891, and below, the dining room in the Zoo Society building in 1878.
