Honolulu Zoo

This guide to the Honolulu Zoo follows Daisy, the African elephant who arrived by steamship from Australia in 1916 and became the reason this park has a zoo at all, and George Conradt, the teamster who cared for her for years. You'll hear how politics cost him his job, how Daisy grew unpredictable without him, and how a children's Save Daisy campaign won him a hurried rehiring to prove he still controlled her. Picture the elephant enclosure as it looked back when the zoo was barely more than her paddock.