Frank Buck (animal collector)
Frank Howard Buck was an American hunter, animal collector, and author, as well as a film actor, director, and producer. Beginning in the 1910s he made many expeditions into Asia for the purpose of hunting and collecting exotic animals, bringing over 100,000 live specimens back to the United States and elsewhere for zoos and circuses and earning a reputation as an adventurer. He co-authored seven books chronicling or based on his expeditions, beginning with 1930's Bring 'Em Back Alive, which became a bestseller.
Buck in a signed photograph from his souvenir booklet for the 1939 New York World's Fair
Frank Buck's passport photo, 1918
A plaque at the San Diego Zoo beneath a bronze statue of King Tut, the zoo's longtime greeter, indicates that the cockatoo was brought to the United States by Buck.
Buck's first book, Bring 'Em Back Alive (1930), became a bestseller.
The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, housing 4,000 animals of more than 650 species and subspecies on 100 acres (40 ha) of Balboa Park leased from the City of San Diego. Its parent organization, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, is a private nonprofit conservation organization, and has one of the largest zoological membership associations in the world, with more than 250,000 member households and 130,000 child memberships, representing more than a half million people.
Entrance to the zoo with sculpture Rex's Roar, after the lion that inspired the zoo
First official seal of the Zoological Society of San Diego
San Diego County Animal Control Officer, Tom Van Wagner, with Tasmanian devil he captured after it escaped from the San Diego Zoo, 1977
Skyfari gondolas provide an aerial view of the zoo
