A camel, water buffalo and giraffe form an odd teeter-totter trio during the daily show at Africa USA Marine World in Redwood City, Calif., August 17, 1972. Trainer Fess Reynolds sits on the giraffe, while Ronna Snyder, another trainer, rides the water buffalo whose shifting weight provides the teeter-tottering power. (Photo by Richard Drew/AP Photo)





Margaret Ann Morris, 2, of St. Charles, Mo., sits with award presented by Lassie, the TV star, right, to Red, left, a 75-pound Irish setter, in New York, August 17, 1976. The award, sponsored by a pet products company, was given to Red for pulling Margaret Ann out of a flaming car by her coat collar in May 1975. (Photo by Dave Pickoff/AP Photo)





Two Russian bears give subway construction workers a paw (hand) as they stump for publicity in Washington, Friday, December 5, 1975. The Soviet Circus opens in the nation's capital. (Photo by AP Photo)





Skating chimpanzees (from left) Candy, Enoch and Marquis, frolic on the ice during their first rehearsal for the Christmas ice show at Wembley in London on December 16, 1963. (Photo by AP Photo)





Gordon Millar of Euharlee, Ga., holds a couple of rattlesnakes, December 20, 1972 in Atlanta during a snake handling religious service. The author of a book on the subject, Dr. Weston La Barre of Duke University, said, “I thought snake-handling was disappearing several years ago, but it seems to be flourishing again”. Because of adverse publicity, many snake-handling churches have gone underground and allow only members witness services. (Photo by AP Photo)





Kelly the acting chimp, whose real nose is too flat for his role in “Escape From the Planet of the Apes”, looks in a mirror at a human-style plastic nose made for him by a film studio technician in Hollywood, January 20, 1971. (Photo by David F. Smith/AP Photo)





His own space suit, with oxygen tank, doesn't make Barney the monkey any happier as he and actor Adam West view the situation in their space capsule in Hollywood on January 24, 1964. Barney, a South American woolly monkey, is blasted into space with West, as an astronaut, in a new movie, “Robinson Crusoe on Mars”. (Photo by AP Photo)





A dead raccoon lies atop the car of James Meredith, the controversial student who is the first black to attend the University of Mississippi in Oxford, December 19, 1962. It was found there prior to Meredith's leaving the campus for the holidays. A U.S. marshal removed it. (Photo by Dale Duckworth/AP Photo)





Harry, right, the chimpanzee actor of the “Tarzan” films, and his side-kick, Jimmy, try to look-pretty-please for a close-up shot, in Hollywood, Calif., on July 26, 1948. (Photo by Ellis Bosworth/AP Photo)





Protection of the civilian population in Germany against gas attacks in future wars has extended to animal life. This dog is shown taking a jump and his gas mask is no impediment, June 1, 1934. (Photo by AP Photo)





While Daffy the duck and Elisa Baltes get chummy topside, Romeo the lamb concentrates on the bowl of popcorn on the lawn of the William Baltes home in Sandusky, Ohio, June 8, 1967. Daffy and Romeo are buddies, always together. And Daffy shares Romeo's taste for popcorn. (Photo by AP Photo)





The tomcat, thinking discretion the better part of valor, has made friends with six young, orphaned opossums at Rome Ga., June 22, 1966. Some of the youngsters snarl at an unwelcome intruder, the pooch. The critters were adopted by Gary Poole, 11, of Lindale, a Rome suburb. (Photo by AP Photo)





Cohy, a three-month-old Chihuahua, nestles in a slipper-shoe in the home of it's owner Patrick Loebach, in Leonore, Ill., near LaSalle on June 28, 1974. (Photo by AP Photo/RDB)





America's earth-orbiting chimpanzee, gets a pair of helping hands as he tries out his land legs at Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda, November 30, 1961. Enos was brought to the base on a destroyer after recovery of the capsule in which he was orbited around the earth two times . He is scheduled to be flown back to Cape Canaveral December 1. (Photo by John Rooney/AP Photo)





One several hundred mules being delivered to Greece by the UNRRA is swung from a ship to a dock at a port in Greece on October 10, 12, 1945. (Photo by AP Photo)





There's a disparity in size between Micky, the mouse, and its feline companions, Tigger, a tom cat, and Tiki, a kitten, as they sample milk at the Oswald home Weston-under-Lizard, Shropsh England on October 12, 1969. (Photo by AP Photo)





Butch, an English bulldog, obviously would like to be a dispatch rider but can't join the active duty list, so his mistress enlisted him as a Marine sergeant, shown October 24, 1994. His owner, Mrs. S.L. Sauve, of New York, described him as “really sweet”, but Butch looks tough enough to be a Marine. (Photo by AP Photo)





No wonder this pooch looks confused in Salinas, California, October 24, 1975. A plain, ordinary fire hydrant in Salinas, Calif., is all decked out in red, white and blue. Blame the city of Salinas for decorating the fire hydrants in the Spirit of '76 theme. (Photo by AP Photo)





Alsation “Captain” struggles to keep his balance on two pairs of children's skis, fitted by his master, Ski-tow operator, Hans Grimus, in an attempt to keep man and dog together, while moving around on the snow-covered slopes of Mount Buller, 160 miles north-east of Melbourne, Australia on October 28, 1970. (Photo by AP Photo)





Jambo, a 250-pound gorilla at the Jersey Zoo in St. Helier, the Channel Islands, leans into the dry moat around the gorilla enclosure at the zoo to check the condition of five-year-old Levan Merritt on September 2, 1986, after the boy tumbled 20-feet into the pit. Jambo gently caressed the unconscious boy and neither he nor his mate nor their baby, right, harmed the youngster. Levan suffered head injuries and a broken arm in the fall. (Photo by AP Photo)





Fangs flash in the sun and the dust flies as Jackie, a monkey, and lady, a dog, face each other in fierce combat in Natal, South Africa, September 23, 1963 but the anger is mock and blood is never drawn. Owned by animal trainer Jamie Van Heerden, Jackie and Lay are just a pair of hams and great friends besides. Mr. Van Heerden has supplied the animals used in the films “Zulu” and “Rhino” which were shot in Natal. (Photo by AP Photo)