Two For The Zoo

Gabby walks into the delivery crate containing the animal as he was on his way with a basket of apples. After having protested at the deliveryman about blocking the street, he learns the curious contents of the crate from a label marked “Rubberneck Kango – Very Rare.”

Believing that the animal held within is purely fictional, he begins to laugh and suggest the deliveryman was sent on a fools errand, but a howl from inside the crate causes a shift of focus and they notice a strange creature has poked its head from the side to eat Gabby’s apples.

Gabby comes back over with a ladder and bucket full of water from the trough. Resting the ladder on the kango’s chest, he climbs up to her mouth and tells her to open up. She opens a little, but not enough for him to pour the water and his calls of “wider” are met with hiccups. Suddenly, the kango begins to hiccup uncontrollably, bouncing the ladder up with her chest and catching it with her horns. She keeps hiccuping, causing the ladder to jack up rung by rung until it’s balanced on her head.

Gabby tries to keep balanced on top of the ladder, but when he tries to climb down, she hiccups again and it goes off balance. Gabby calls down to the kango to hold her breath again, hanging on tight as she takes in another huge breath. He starts to climb down but she loses control again, cheeks puffing bigger and bigger as Gabby steps down rung by rung until she can hold no more and releases again, the breath blasting from her trunk and sending the ladder and Gabby flying.

Gabby runs away and locks himself in a cage to stop the angry mother kango getting near, throwing the key away as the two kangos watch outside and grin as a gulp reveals it’s the lion cage and the lion caught and swallowed the key, trapping Gabby inside and leaving the kangos to escape.

Release Date: February 21, 1941