It is National Zoo Keeper Week and this week's Photo of the Week brings us to the Prospect Park Zoo, circa 1940, where a zoo keeper sprays an elephant with a hose. In 1938, the zoo held four elephants, Bill, Astra (a newcomer that year), Topsy, and Judy, but it is unclear who exactly is pictured here. The Prospect Park Zoo no longer has elephants, which is probably for the best after a series of tragic falls into the zoo's dry moat in 1938 and 1939. Today, the zoo is a part of the Wildlife Conservation Society and involved in projects to save endangered species.
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