Kuzya is an Andean condor from the collection of the Moscow Zoo of the 1890s - early 1960s.
| Kuzya | |
|---|---|
 Condor Kuzya. 1940 | |
| View | Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) |
| Floor | male |
| Date of Birth | until 1892 |
| Date of death | 1963 |
| Place of death | Moscow Zoo |
| A country | Russian Empire (1892-1917), USSR |
| Occupation | zoo pet |
| Years of activity | 1892-1963 |
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Biography
He entered the Moscow Zoo [1] in 1892 as an adult [2] . “How old is Kuze, no one knows for sure. And the minister Nikita Ivanovich says, - Vera Chaplin wrote in 1950-1951, - that when he went to work at the Zoo fifty-six years ago, the condor was already there ” [3] . From the mid-1890s to the mid-1950s, N. I. Teplyakov invariably looked after Kuzey [4] . In those years when there were still few heated rooms in the zoo, many birds died in severe winters, and Nikita Ivanovich, “as soon as the frost came, he dragged Kuzya to the attic of the house where he lived. There Kuzya spent the most severe colds, and with warming again migrated to his cage ” [5] .
A few years later, a female, who was named Kuzikha, was planted in Kuza. Kuzya became so attached to his girlfriend that the minister, tying the wings of Kuzikhe, began to let both condors out of the cage for walks along the alleys of the zoo. Almost immediately, Kuzya “took a fancy to a small stone hill nearby and, as soon as he was released, went along with Kuzikha to her. On this hill, they usually sat up to four hours. Then Kuzya, and after him, and his girlfriend went downstairs and headed into the cage. At that time, condors always received meat ” [6] (according to the data of the 1950s, 1 kg of meat was given in the Kuze daily feed diet, its weight was 12.5 kg [7] , and the wingspan reached 3 meters [8] ) .
In the very first summer, Kuzikha gave birth: in May, condors built a nest in a cage in which the female laid one egg, and after a 51-day hatching, a chick hatched from it. However, soon the whole Condor family fell ill, and after three weeks only Kuzya survived.
A lot of time passed, but the condor remained attached to his deceased girlfriend. Once, the minister decided, as before, to let him out for a walk. “... Kuzya immediately went to his hill. But he did not stay to sit on it. He spread his wings and suddenly, suddenly flapping them, he took to the air. He rose higher and higher ... And, when everyone already thought that he would not return, he went down in broad circles ” [9] .
Condor Kuzya died in 1963, having lived at the Moscow Zoo for 70 years [8] . But even after his death, Kuzya continued to be the favorite of zoologists and employees of the Moscow Zoo: “He was such an outstanding personality that since then in his memory all the Andean condors of the Moscow Zoo were given the nickname Kuzya” [10] . And his stuffed animal is stored as a unique exhibit in the Zoological Museum [11] .
Literary Hero
In the early 1950s, Vera Chaplina wrote about the famous long-liver of the Moscow Zoo the story "Condor", which was based on the memoirs of Nikita Ivanovich Teplyakov about the pre-revolutionary years of his pet's life. First published in 1955 and translated into Japanese (1956) [12] and German (1958) [13] , the story of Condor Kuze was included in the main series of works by the writer “ Zoo Pets ” [14] .
See also
- Argo (wolf)
- Wrestler (bear)
- Threw
- Maryam (the Bear)
- Raji
- Samson Hamletovich Leningrad
- Orphan (tigress)
- Shango (elephant)
- Phryne (orangutan)
Notes
- ↑ The Moscow Zoo was called a zoo until 1927, when due to the significant expansion (the New Territory was opened), it was given a higher status of the zoo.
- ↑ Gladkov N. Birds // Moscow Zoo (collection of articles). M., 1961, p. 154.
- ↑ Chaplin, 1955 , p. 143.
- ↑ In 1956, N.I. Teplyakov was the oldest employee of the Moscow Zoo and still continued to work: Sosnovsky I.P. Moscow Zoo. M., "Moscow Worker", 1957, S. 200.
- ↑ Chaplin, 1955 , p. 144.
- ↑ Chaplin, 1955 , p. 144-145.
- ↑ Medvedeva E.E. , Nemchinova A.V. Experience of feeding wild birds // Moscow Zoo (Proceedings. Issue 1). M., State Publishing House of Cultural and Educational Literature, 1956. P. 102.
- ↑ 1 2 Sosnovsky I.P. Pets of the Moscow Zoo. M., "Moscow Worker", 1974. S. 197.
- ↑ Chaplin, 1955 , p. 146.
- ↑ About Condor Kuz at the Moscow Zoo website.
- ↑ Young naturalist. 1985, No. 7, p. 26.
- ↑ Chaplin V.V.ソ ヴ ェ ト 動物 記 (“Pets of the zoo”, in 2 volumes, with a preface by the director of UENO-Zoo Tadamity Koga). Tokyo, Hakuyosha, 1956. Photos: Anatoly Anzhanov.
- ↑ Tschaplina W. Vierbeinige Freunde und Zoglinge des Zoo (“Four-legged Friends and Pets of the Zoo”). Berlin, Der Kinderbuchverlag, 1958. Pictures: Helmut Kloss
- ↑ Taviev, 2016 , p. 122.
Literature
- Chaplin V.V. Condor / Pets of the zoo . - M., Detgiz, 1955 .-- 143-147 p.
- Guide to the Moscow Zoo. M., 1940. p. 62
- Moscow Zoo (guide). M., Moscow Worker, 1952. S. 159, 168, 219 (Photos by A. Anzhanov).
- Sosnovsky I.P. Among animals and birds. M., Moscow Worker, 1959. S. 88–89. (Photo by A. Anzhanov).
- Taviev M. Yu. Vera Chaplin. Life and art. - SPb. : Publishing House "Petropolis", 2016. - 224 p. - ISBN 978-5-9676-0766-0 .