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At the Stellingen Zoo, a zookeeper is seen walking inside a bird enclosure. He is seen holding a wooden crate filled with lettuce. A Palm-nut vulture is seen inside the enclosure, Germany, 1935.The Stellingen Zoo (aka Stellingen Animal Park and now called the Tierpark Hagenbeck), which was founded in 1902 by Carl Hagenbeck. The zoo opened in 1907, and was famous for introducing panoramic, barless enclosures that mimicked natural habitats. During the Bombing of Hamburg in WWII the version of the zoo seen in the film was destroyed; after the war it was rebuilt. Today, the private zoo is still run by the Hagenbeck family. It remains a historic, iconic attraction known for its innovative approach to animal display and, historically, for its "Nordland" panorama.The Tierpark Hagenbeck began in 1863 with animals that belonged to Carl Hagenbeck Sr., a fishmonger who became an amateur animal collector. The park itself was founded by Carl Hagenbeck Jr. in 1907. It is known for being the first zoo to use open enclosures surrounded by moats, rather than barred cages, to better approximate animals' natural environments. These "panoramas" used a clever technique of moats which were concealed from viewers. The first moat might feature seals and walruses in a pool, and beyond the moat were reindeer, and beyond a second hidden moat were polar bears. By hiding the moats, the animals appeared to be together in one landscape. Hagenbeck also revolutionized the layout of zoos, grouping his animals by species, something that had not been done before. Hagenbeck called his design an animal paradise where "animals would live beside each other in harmony and where the fight for survival would be eliminated".