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Spectators watch as baby elephants and chimps perform at Saint Louis Zoo in Missouri.
Spectators watch animals performing at St Louis Zoo, Missouri. Baby elephants perform tricks in the zoo. Trainer Floyd Smith around the eight performing Siamese Elephants wearing tutu. Spectators including children look on. An elephant named Pumi performs on a tricycle. A chimp named Captain Roy drives a motorbike in a showboat number under supervision of trainer Mike Kostial (working for George Vierheller). The chimp stands on one foot on the motorcycle and puts the other foot out behind him in the air while driving the motorbike around a ring. Two more chimps jump on his back on the motorcycle. Children watch the show and smile. The chipmanzees drive dodgem cars shaped like small boats. A chimp wearing water skis (with roller skate wheels beneath) is towed behind one of the boats in chimpanzee Captain Roy's show. Mr. George Vierheller looks on and smiles. Location: Saint Louis Missouri USA. Date: May 14, 1956.
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1956-05-14
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baby elephants perform tricks at St Louis zoo
Saint Louis Missouri USA
chimp Captain Roy drives motorbike
dodgem cars
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