![]() ![]() Several of the animals are either rehomed, come as overflow from other licensed facilities, or have been received from other properly licensed individuals. Lloyd Beebe passed along his trait, his dedication, and his love for wildlife to his grandsons Robert Beebe and James Beebe, along with their uncle Kenneth Beebe, who have taken over the daily operations of the Olympic Game Farm since 2008. ![]() We cannot accept local animals from the wild without proper permission from Washington State Fish and Wildlife. Olympic Game Farm will continue to accept in-need wildlife, as space permits and with the proper authority approvals. Our founders Lloyd and Catherine Beebe retired from the filming industry and focused solely on caring for their animal actors, concentrating on offering “in need” captive bred animals a new and loving home. Summer of 2014, “Leland” a black tail deer was used in the filming of “Captain Fantastic” as well as Olympic Game Farm used as a filming location for a scene.Īfter the death of Walt and Roy Disney, Disney Studios began to move away from the nature films that had been so dear to Walt’s heart. In 1972, with the approval of the Disney Studios for using the Disney name, Olympic Game Farm, Inc. In winter of 2013, we used “Kitty” once again in a National Geographic documentary on black bear in the city. In 2012, we had used our black bear “Kitty” and wolf “Brutus” in “Serenity Farms”. A few popular titles produced with our past animal actors are “Charlie the Lonesome Cougar,” “The Incredible Journey,” “White Wilderness,” and “Grizzly Adams” television and movie series. Olympic Game Farm worked exclusively for Walt Disney Studios for 28 years, filming here at the farm and on the Olympic Peninsula, as well as on many different set locations. Friendly llamas and yak eat bread from your hand, clowning bears stand up and wave, and the elk and buffalo peacefully graze in the pastures. “The aggressive animals were so aggressive I got the feeling that 10 or 20 of them would probably kill me if they got out of the cages.With over 200 animals on-site, our driving tour leaves our visitors with vivid memories of these amazing creatures experiences which, at first are hard to imagine, become pleasantly surprising. They would creep under my shirt and seemed to actually seek and enjoy contact,” recalls Pääbo. “I could take the tame ones out of the cage with my bare hands. ![]() After just 30 years of selection, the IC&G researchers had fashioned two populations that could hardly be more different. This time, one line of rats was selected for tameness and another selected for aggression. What Pääbo didn’t know, though, is that Belyaev had also set up another experiment in the 1970s involving rats. Fifty years ago, the then head of the IC&G, geneticist Dmitry Belyaev, had begun breeding silver foxes to see how easily they could be tamed. IN 2003, while geneticist Svante Pääbo was visiting Novosibirsk, Russia’s third-largest city, he decided to look in on a famous experiment run by the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, which is based in the city. (Image: Ria Novosti / Science Photo Library)Įditorial: Old MacDonald’s new farm: What animals should we tame next – or has domestication gone too far already? Dimitri Belyaev in 1984 with some of the tame silver foxes he bred in just a few generations
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