Maude die Töwin

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Maude die Töwin

Maude die Töwin

Das ist Maude, eine Töwin – eine seltene Kreuzung aus Tiger und Löwin. Ihr Vater war ein Tiger, ihre Mutter eine Löwin, wodurch sie Eigenschaften beider Elternteile vereinte.

Zu Lebzeiten war Maude eine Attraktion im Belle Vue Zoo in Manchester, wo sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Bruder Kliou in den 1930er- und 1940er-Jahren lebte. Die beiden Töwen wurden 1932 im Dresdner Zoo in Deutschland geboren.

1950 schrieb der Leiter des Belle Vue Zoos, Gerald Iles, an das Manchester Museum und berichtete:
“Während ihres Lebens hier im Zoo wurde Maude stets bewundert und, wie ich sagen würde, von einer großen Zahl unserer Besucher geliebt. Sie war immer ruhig, zeigte vorbildliche Manieren und trat stets perfekt gepflegt auf.”

Nach Maudes Tod schenkte Gerald Iles ihr Fell dem Manchester Museum. Doch erst 2015 wurde es fachgerecht präpariert und der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Damit war Maude die erste Töwin, die seit fast 100 Jahren in einem britischen Museum ausgestellt wurde.

Comments from Katharina Geis about the translation

I am an ethnographer and museologist particularly interested in online museum collection databases. For my doctoral thesis I have conducted an ethnographic study on how digital images from online available collections are used in everyday life, how they are curated on social media and how such practices lead to various modes of knowing about, with and through the digitised artefacts. I am very passionate about making museum collections available for everyone and therefore love this project.

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